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Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to keep many people alive.
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Job 1:21
He said,“ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
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Genesis 45:7-8
So God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Acts 2:23-24
this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.But God raised Him from the dead, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
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Psalms 105:16-17
And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
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Luke 23:34
[ But Jesus was saying,“ Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”] And they cast lots, dividing His garments among themselves.
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Acts 7:9-15
“ The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and his entire household.“ Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.And on the second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.Then Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy five people in all.And Jacob went down to Egypt, and he and our fathers died there.
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Genesis 47:25
So they said,“ You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
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Isaiah 40:1-2
“ Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.“ Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her guilt has been removed, That she has received of the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.”
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Acts 4:24-28
And when they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said,“ Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them,who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,‘ Why were the nations insolent, And the peoples plotting in vain?The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and against His Christ.’For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,to do whatever Your hand and purpose predestined to occur.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to foil the good advice of Ahithophel, in order for the Lord to bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 16 10-2 Samuel 16 12
But the king said,“ What business of mine is yours, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him,‘ Curse David,’ then who should say,‘ Why have you done so?’ ”Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“ Behold, my son who came out of my own body seeks my life; how much more now this Benjaminite? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him.Perhaps the Lord will look on my misery and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”
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2 Samuel 12 12
Indeed, you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and in open daylight.’ ”
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1 Samuel 1 19
Then they got up early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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2 Corinthians 2 11
so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
so that on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a person might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.