50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good
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We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
The LORD has made everything for its own end?yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
"Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.
"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Therefore I will be ready always to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father;
Who can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
"'Thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Rejoice, 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 wouldn't listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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, the things of the Spirit.
He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
Do not overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
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