Philemon 1:15 Cross References - CAB

¹⁵ For perhaps he was taken away for a time on account of this, in order that you might keep him eternally,

⁵ Now then, do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶ For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing. ⁷ For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you. ⁸ Now then, you did not send me here, but God; and He has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed.

¹⁰ For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to You, and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to You.

⁶ And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians; and how shall we be saved?

²⁸ to do all that Your hand and Your counsel foreordained to come to pass.