As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
⛓ Read Genesis 50 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Caiaphas' malicious counsel that providentially saves many enacts Joseph's 'you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to keep many people alive.' The dramatic irony of unwitting prophecy producing salvation is strongly coherent; moderate volume via the evil-counsel-turned-deliverance pattern.
Medium confidenceJoseph's summary, 'you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,' undergirds Paul's 'perhaps' of v15, where Onesimus's wrong and flight are recast as occasion for good. The thematic kinship is strong even though Paul borrows no wording.
Low confidence'The things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the gospel' resonates figurally with Joseph's 'you meant evil... but God meant it for good,' the paradigm of imprisonment turned to providential benefit. Coherence with Paul's providential reading of his chains is suggestive; verbal contact is absent, so this is a contested typological echo.
Low confidence'You meant evil... but God meant it for good' faintly underlies 'all things work together for good for those who love God' (v.28); divine providence turning suffering toward good.
Low confidence