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.”
José diz aos seus irmãos: “Vós intentastes o mal contra mim, mas Deus o tornou em bem”: Deus pode entrelaçar até atos maus em seus propósitos de salvação.
Resposta rápida traduzida com auxílio de IA e em revisão. A explicação completa é exibida em inglês.
Joseph’s brothers had sold him into slavery, yet God used the whole ordeal to position Joseph to save many lives during famine.
The verse holds two truths together: human wrongdoing is real and culpable, and God’s sovereign goodness can overrule it for good.
Does Genesis 50:20 mean evil is good?
No. It says the brothers’ intent was genuinely evil, but God sovereignly used it for good—he redeems evil without excusing it.