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Genesis 50:20
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result— the survival of many people.
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Job 1:21
saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of Yahweh.
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Genesis 45:7-8
God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Acts 2:23-24
Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.
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Psalms 105:16-17
He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.He had sent a man ahead of them— Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
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Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said,“ Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided His clothes and cast lots.
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Acts 7:9-15
“ The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with himand rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole household.Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors the first time.The second time, Joseph was revealed to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,
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Genesis 47:25
And they said,“ You have saved our lives. We have found favor in our lord’s eyes and will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
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Isaiah 40:1-2
“ Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.“ Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of forced labor is over, her iniquity has been pardoned, and she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
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Acts 4:24-28
When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said,“ Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant: Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot futile things?The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Messiah.“ For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”
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2 Samuel 16 10-2 Samuel 16 12
The king replied,“ Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? He curses me this way because the Lord told him,‘ Curse David!’ Therefore, who can say,‘ Why did you do that?’”Then David said to Abishai and all his servants,“ Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood, intends to take my life— how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse me; the Lord has told him to.Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”
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2 Samuel 12 12
You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”
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1 Samuel 1 19
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.
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2 Corinthians 2 11
I have done this so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, this one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.