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

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.

All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

God meant

So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry {with yourselves} that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you.

For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on [the] remnant of anger.

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

[It is] good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes.

But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For [it is] in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.

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.

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, [after] he had decided to release [him].

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

General references

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