Genesis 45:5
And 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.
Cross References
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good--

Genesis 37:28
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:8
Therefore 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.

Genesis 50:20
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.

2 Samuel 16:11
Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

Psalm 105:17
He sent a man before them--Joseph, sold as a slave.


Treasury of Scripture
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

be not grieved.



Isaiah 40:1,2
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God…



Luke 23:34
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.



2 Corinthians 2:7,11
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow…

nor angry with yourselves.

God.



Genesis 45:7,8
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance…



Genesis 47:25
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.



Genesis 50:20
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.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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