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Genesis 50:20
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but 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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Job 1:21
And he said:“ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I 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
And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
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Acts 2:23-24
Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
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Psalms 105:16-17
Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.He sent a man before them— Joseph— who was sold as a slave.
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Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said,“ Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.
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Acts 7:9-15
“ And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with himand delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh.Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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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 servants.”
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Isaiah 40:1-2
“ Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God.“ Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD’s hand Double for all her sins.”
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Acts 4:24-28
So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said:“ Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,who by the mouth of Your servant David have said:‘ Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.’“ For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered togetherto do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
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2 Samuel 17 14
So 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 purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 16 10-2 Samuel 16 12
But the king said,“ What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the Lord has said to him,‘ Curse David.’ Who then shall say,‘ Why have you done so?’”And David said to Abishai and all his servants,“ See how my son who came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the Lord has ordered him.It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”
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2 Samuel 12 12
For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’”
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1 Samuel 1 19
Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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2 Corinthians 2 11
lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.