50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good
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And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive.
For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether evil.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity take note that God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing 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 the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God.
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.
From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.
For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;
And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.
Return to your own house and declare what God has done to you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout all the city what great things Jesus had done to him.
But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.
So now make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God. And Jehovah will repent of the evil that He has spoken against you.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.
And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!
always giving thanks for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who is this who speaks, and it occurs, when the Lord does not command it?
having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.
So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.
Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
He shall not be afraid of bad news; his heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.
Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.
Then I looked at all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea, further, though a wise one speaks of knowing, yet he shall not be able to find it.
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