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; comfort my people," says your God.

[[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."]] And they cast lots to divide his clothes.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

God

And God sent me before you [all] to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors.

And they said, "You have saved our lives. [If] we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."

As for you, you planned evil against me, [but] God planned it for good, in order to do this--to keep many people alive--as [it is] today.

Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh {and returned} to their house at Ramah. Then Elkanah {had sexual relations with} Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her.

Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"

The king said, "{What do we have in common}, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?"

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).

Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every {supply} of bread.

this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed [by] nailing to [a cross] through the hand of lawless men.

And [when they] heard [it], they lifted [their] voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you [are] the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

And the patriarchs, [because they] were jealous of Joseph, sold [him] into Egypt. And God was with him,

General references

And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.

For perhaps because of this, he was separated [from you] for a time, in order that you might have him back forever,