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 my people, O ye prophets; comfort my people, sayeth your God.

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

So that now contrariwise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.

God

Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

And they answered, "Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and let us be Pharaoh's servants."

Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive.

And they rose up early and bowed themselves before the LORD, and then returned and went to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah lay by his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

And thou didst it secretly, yet will I do this thing before all Israel and in the open sunlight.'"

And the king said, "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Let him curse: for the LORD hath bid him curse David. And who dare presume to say wherefore doth he so?"

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said that the counsel of Hushai the Archite was better than the counsel of Ahithophel - For it was even the LORD's determination to destroy the counsel of Ahithophel, which was good, that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land, and destroyed all the provision of bread.

him have ye taken by the hands of unrighteous persons, after he was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slain him whom God hath raised up:

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

And the patriarchs, having indignation, sold Joseph into Egypt, and God was with him,

General references

Then came there a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and Canaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.

Haply he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever,