Verse 15

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back forever.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 45:5-8 : 5 Now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life. 6 For two years now, there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years, there will be no plowing or harvesting. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to establish a remnant for you on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me like a father to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and a ruler throughout Egypt.
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done—the saving of many lives.
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 'They did what your hand and will had predestined to take place.'
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 When God rose up to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
  • Isa 20:6 : 6 On that day, the inhabitants of this coastland will say, 'See what has happened to those we relied on for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'