50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good

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

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.

Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Woe to those 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 evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

"Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"

giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.