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Genesis 50:20
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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Job 1:21
He said,“ Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
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Genesis 45:7-8
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Acts 2:23-24
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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Psalms 105:16-17
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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Luke 23:34
Jesus said,“ Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
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Acts 7:9-15
“ The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy- five souls.Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,
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Genesis 47:25
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, comfort my people,” says your God.“ Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
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Acts 4:24-28
When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said,“ O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;who by the mouth of your servant, David, said,‘ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’“ For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 16 10-2 Samuel 16 12
The king said,“ What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him,‘ Curse David;’ who then shall say,‘ Why have you done so?’”David said to Abishai, and to all his servants,“ Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
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2 Samuel 12 12
For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
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1 Samuel 1 19
They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
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2 Corinthians 2 11
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
