Genesis 50:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Ye thought

Genesis 37:4

Psalm 56:5

God meant

General references

Philemon 1:15

Bible References

Ye thought

And his brethren will see that their father loved him above all his brethren, and they will hate him, and will not be able to speak to him for peace.

All the day they will grieve my words: against me all their purposes for evil

God meant

And now, ye shall not be grieved, and it shall not burn in your eyes, because ye sold me here: for God sent me before you for the preservation of life.

For the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath thou wilt gird up.

And he will call a famine upon the land: he broke all the support of bread.

Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

And he will not thus purpose, and his heart will not reckon thus; for in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not few.

This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose.

And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.

General references

For perhaps therefore he was separated for a time, that thou mightest receive him forever;