Bible Verses About The Providence of God: Overruling wicked designs for good

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.

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

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

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.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.