Verse set: The Powerful "But God" Reversals of the Bible§↻

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• Genesis 31:7: but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
  
  
• Genesis 45:8: So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  
  
• Genesis 50:24: Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
  
  
• 1 Samuel 23:14: David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.
  
  
• Psalm 73:26: My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.
  
  
• Ecclesiastes 5:7: Just as there is futility in many dreams, so also in many words. Therefore, fear God!
  
  
• Luke 16:15: But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.
  
  
• Acts 7:9: The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
  
  
• Acts 10:28: He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
  
  
• Romans 5:7-8: (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 1:26-27: Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 3:6: I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.
  
  
• Galatians 3:18: For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.
  
  
• Ephesians 2:3-4: among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest... But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
  
  

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