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, saith your God.

Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.

God

And God sent me before you that you might remain in the earth and that you might be given life by great liberty.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord that we might be Pharaoh's slaves.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God thought it out unto good, to bring to pass that which we see this day, to give life to many people.

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

For thou hast done 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? So let him curse, because the LORD has said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why hast thou done so?

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

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

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, thou art the God, who hast made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them,

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

General references

Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Perhaps for this, he departed from you for a season, that thou should have him again forever,