50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good
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But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.
Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as it is this day, to save a great people alive.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.
Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.
But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face; and though I taught them, rising early and teaching, they hearkened not to receive instruction.
Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me.
Return to thine house and relate how great things God has done for thee. And he went away through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done for him.
But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)
And now, amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.
Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.
And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
giving thanks at all times for all things to him who is God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.
having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall even come to pass in that day that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought;
for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.
Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.
Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:
Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed confiding in Jehovah;
They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.
For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.
then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.
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