Genesis 45:5

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Summary

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Be not grieved

Isaiah 40:1

Luke 23:34

2 Corinthians 2:7

God

General references

Acts 7:11

Philemon 1:15

Bible References

Be not grieved

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

God

And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

And they said, Thou have saved our lives. Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

And as for you, ye meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and LORD remembered her.

For thou did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because LORD has said to him, Curse David, who then shall say, Why have thou done so?

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that LORD might bring evil upon A

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread.

this man, having been designated (by the purpose and foreknowledge of God) a man delivered up, ye, having taken by lawless hands, killed, having crucified,

And those who heard lifted up a voice to God with one accord, and said, Thou Master, the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them.

And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

General references

Now a famine came on all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

For perhaps because of this he departed for an hour, so that thou might receive him back forever,