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

So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

God

And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

And they rose in the morning early, and worshiped 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 didst 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 hath said to him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why hast 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 the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

And said, Naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: The LORD gave, and the LORD hath 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 God, who hast made heaven, and 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 dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldst receive him for ever;