50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good

And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

As far as you're concerned, you were planning evil against me, but God intended it for good, planning to bring about the present result so that many people would be preserved alive.

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

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For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

For God will judge every deed, along with every secret, whether good or evil.

The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

When times are good, be joyful; when times are bad, consider this: God made the one as well as the other, so people won't seek anything outside of his best.

"How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter!"

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The person who does what is good is from God. The person who does what is evil has never seen God.

But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible,

"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.

Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High?

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing both the evil and the good.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.

They have turned their backs to me rather than their faces. Even though I taught them, teaching them again and again, they didn't listen to accept correction.

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in court perhaps the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, will be gracious to the survivors of Joseph.'"

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

Do not enter the path of the wicked, or go along the way of evil men.

I'll make an everlasting covenant with them that I won't turn away from doing good for them. I'll put the fear of me in their hearts so they won't turn away from me.

"Go home and tell what God has done for you." So the man left and kept proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

But when everything has been put under him, then the Son himself will also become subject to the one who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

Avoid evil and do good! Seek peace and pursue it!

Now, change your habits and your deeds and obey the LORD your God, and the LORD will change his mind about the disaster that he told you about.

Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Therefore, I intend to keep on reminding you about these things, even though you already know them and are firmly established in the truth that you now have.

He has commanded mankind: "To fear the Lord that is wisdom; to move away from evil that is understanding.'"

you will consistently give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah;

Who can command, and it happens, without the Lord having ordered it?

The rich and the poor have this in common the LORD created both of them.

So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "This is what's going to happen on the very day that you begin your invasion: You'll be thinking, making evil plans,

For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

So enjoy yourself in your youth, young man, and be encouraged during your younger days. Live as you like, consistent with your world view, but keep in mind that God will bring you to account for everything.

However, the LORD your God didn't listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned Balaam's curse into a blessing, because the LORD your God loves you.

Your love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

He need not fear a bad report, for his heart is unshaken, since he trusts in the LORD.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

Do not destroy God's action for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person stumble because of what you eat.

Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God's servants.

I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.