50 Bible Verses about God Turning Bad Things Into Good
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And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
And 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.
He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy thou them in thy truth.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him.
And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you .
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.
They change the night into day: The light,'say they , is near unto the darkness.
Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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