Bible Verses About Afflictions: Frequently terminate in good

You meant to do me harm, but God meant it for good -so that it would come about as it is today, with many people's lives being saved.

So they put slavemasters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built for Pharaoh the storage cities of Pitom and Ra'amses.

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and expanded, until the Egyptians came to dread the people of Isra'el

who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you;

who fed you in the desert with man, unknown to your ancestors; all the while humbling and testing you in order to do you good in the end -

"Here is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el says: 'I will regard the exiles from Y'hudah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Kasdim, as good, just as I do these good figs.

"'I will look after them for their good, I will bring them back to this land; I will build them up and not tear them down, plant them and not pull them up.

'I will make you pass under the crook and bring you into the obligations of the covenant.