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 see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.

All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,

God meant

and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.

And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

General references

for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,