Gen 50:20, Deu 8:2-3, 16, Psa 46:1-2, Jer 24:5-7, Zec 13:9, Rom 5:3-4, 8:35-39 | ESV | STEP | As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today .

ak 1 Cor. 4:9; 15:30, 31; 2 Cor. 4:10, 11; See Acts 20:24

Genesis 50:20

20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but ^aGod meant it for good, to bring it about that many people ^{▼▼Or a numerous people} should be kept alive, as they are today.

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^cthese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^dtesting you ^eto know what was in your heart, ^fwhether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 And he humbled you and ^glet you hunger and ^hfed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that ⁱman does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word ^{▼▼Hebrew by all} that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:16

16 who fed you in the wilderness with ^kmanna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, ^lto do you good in the end.

Psalms 46:1-2

God Is Our Fortress

To the choirmaster. Of ^mthe Sons of Korah. According to ⁿAlamoth. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} A Song.

1 God is our ^prefuge and strength,
a very ^qpresent ^{▼▼Or well proved} help in ^strouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear ^tthough the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into ^uthe heart of the sea,

Jeremiah 24:5-7

5 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, ^vwhom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6 ^wI will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. ^xI will build them up, and not tear them down; ^yI will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 ^zI will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, ^aaand they shall be my people ^aband I will be their God, ^acfor they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Zechariah 13:9

9 And ^adI will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
^aeThey will call upon my name,
and ^afI will answer them.
^agI will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Romans 5:3-4

3 Not only that, but we ^ahrejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering ^aiproduces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

^aj“For your sake ^akwe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than ^alconquerors through ^amhim who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.