Exodus 1:12

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.