"But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but} God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to save…" — Genesis 50:20

Genesis 50:20 · KJV

“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but} God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to save much people alive.”

— Genesis 50:20

Verse 19

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for {am} I in the place of God?

Verse 21

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. {kindly...: Heb. to their hearts}

Genesis 50 — Context

And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we {be} thy servants.

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for {am} I in the place of God?

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but} God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to save much people alive.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. {kindly...: Heb. to their hearts}

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Cross References

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to {his} purpose.

Psalms 119:71

{It is} good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Genesis 45:5-8

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. {nor...: Heb. neither let there be anger in your eyes}

Genesis 37:18-20

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Acts 2:23

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Psalms 105:16-17

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

Acts 3:13-15

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let {him} go.

Acts 3:26

Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.