Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
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Bible References
Be not grieved
Luke 23:34
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they were casting the lots.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be swallowed up with excessive grief.
God
Acts 2:23
Him by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, having been delivered, you having nailed up, slew through the hand of lawless men;
Acts 4:24
And having heard, they unanimously lifted up their voice to God, and said, O Lord, thou having created the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things which are in them,
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt:
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Acts 7:11
And the famine came into all the land and Canaan, and great distress: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Philemon 1:15
for on this account he suddenly departed from you for an hour, that you might have him back forever;