Philemon 1:15

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

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  • Gen 45:5-8 : 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 50:20 : 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.
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
  • Isa 20:6 : 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

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