Genesis 50:20
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20 (A)But as for you, you meant evil against me; but (B)God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
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Romans 8:28
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28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those (A)who are the called according to His purpose.
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Psalm 119:71
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71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.
Genesis 45:5-8
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5 But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; (A)for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years the (B)famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. 7 And God (C)sent me before you to preserve a [a]posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but (D)God; and He has made me (E)a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a (F)ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
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- Genesis 45:7 remnant
Genesis 37:18-20
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18 Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, (A)they conspired against him to kill him. 19 Then they said to one another, “Look, this [a]dreamer is coming! 20 (B)Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”
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- Genesis 37:19 Lit. master of dreams
Acts 2:23
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23 Him, (A)being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, (B)you [a]have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
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- Acts 2:23 NU omits have taken
Acts 3:26
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26 To you (A)first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, (B)in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”
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Acts 3:13-15
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13 (A)The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, (B)glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you (C)delivered up and (D)denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 14 But you denied (E)the Holy One (F)and the Just, and (G)asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the [a]Prince of life, (H)whom God raised from the dead, (I)of which we are witnesses.
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- Acts 3:15 Or Originator
Psalm 105:16-17
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16 Moreover (A)He called for a famine in the land;
He destroyed all the (B)provision of bread.
17 (C)He sent a man before them—
Joseph—who (D)was sold as a slave.
Genesis 37:4
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4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they (A)hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
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Psalm 56:5
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5 All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Isaiah 10:7
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7 (A)Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
Psalm 76:10
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10 (A)Surely the wrath of man shall praise You;
With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.
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