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Genesis 50:20
Genesis 50:20 is verse 20 of Genesis chapter 50, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
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Genesis 50:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
19 But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
21 Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.
22 Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 37:19“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
Psalms 56:5All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
Genesis 45:5And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Genesis 45:7God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
Psalms 105:16He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
Psalms 105:17He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
Psalms 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Isaiah 10:7But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
Acts 3:14You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
Acts 3:26When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.