Cross references

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.

Genesis 50:20 BSB

Genesis 50:20 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 8:28 (155 votes) and Psalm 119:71 (95 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 37 to Philemon 1.

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Which verses does Genesis 50:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Romans 8:28155 votes

    And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

  2. Psalm 119:7195 votes

    It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

  3. 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. …

  4. Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him. “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another. …

  5. He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.

  6. Acts 2:2331 votes

    He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

  7. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him. You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. …

  8. Genesis 37:422 votes

    When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

  9. Acts 3:2622 votes

    When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

  10. Psalm 56:519 votes

    All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

  11. Isaiah 10:711 votes
  12. Psalm 76:1010 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 50:20?

The 10 strongest of 26.