Providence and Evil
Greater Good
Providence · 6 verses
Providence works all things, including evil and suffering, together for ultimate good to those who love God and for the manifestation of divine glory. What creatures intend for evil, God ordains for good purposes, bringing redemptive fruit from sinful actions and transforming curses into blessings.
Scripture References
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 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. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 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.”
“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.”
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”