50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

He shall reward evil unto my enemies: cut them off in your truth.

Come and see the works of God: he is awesome in his doing toward the children of men.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

For God shall bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.

Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

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

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Return to your own house, and show what great things God has done unto you. And he went his way, and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done unto him.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent concerning the evil that he has pronounced against you.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

Therefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Giving thanks always for all things unto God, even the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Thus says the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought:

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing unto you, because the LORD your God loved you.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

For food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.