20You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
20You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
17 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves," they said.
19 But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
21 So then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your children." And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years
50:20But 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.
50:20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
50:20You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
50:20Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as it is this day, to save a great people alive.
50:20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
50:20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
50:20As for you, ye devised against me evil — God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;
50:20But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it to good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.