50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good
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For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.
Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive.
O come hither and behold the works of God; which is so wonderful in his doings among the children of men.
For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
The LORD doth all things for his own sake; yea, and when he keepeth the ungodly for the day of wrath.
Use well the time of prosperity and remember the time of misfortune: For God maketh one by the other, so that a man can find nothing else.
Woe be unto them that call evil good, and good evil: which make darkness light, and light darkness, that make sour sweet, and sweet sour.
Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: He that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil seeth not God.
but all things, when they are rebuked of the light, are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest, that same is light.
It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive the works of his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them.
When I stood up early, and taught them and instructed them, they turned their backs to me, and not their faces.
Hate the evil, and love the good. Set up right again in the port and, no doubt, the LORD God of hosts shall be merciful unto the remnant of Joseph.
Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.
And I will set up an everlasting covenant with them; Namely: that I will never cease to do them good, and that I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they shall not run away from me.
"Go home again into thine own house, and show what great things God hath done to thee." And he went his way, and preached throughout all the city what great things Jesus had done unto him.
When all things are 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 things.
Therefore amend your ways, and your advisements, and be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God: so shall the LORD repent of the plague, that he had devised against you.
"Nevertheless, your misdeeds have turned these from you, and your sins have robbed you hereof.
Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of such things, though that ye know them yourselves and be also established in the present truth.
And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"
giving thanks always for all things unto God the father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,
For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.
Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.
Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.
If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.
For they that are carnal, are carnally minded; But they that are spiritual are spiritually minded.
He will not be afraid of any evil tidings, for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the LORD.
Destroy not the work of God for a little meat's sake. All things are pure: but it is evil for that man, which eateth with hurt of his conscience.
as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.
I understood of all the works of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attain unto works that are done under the Sun: and though he bestow his labour to seek them out, yet can he not reach unto them: yea, though a wise man would undertake to know them, yet might he not find them.
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