New Revised Standard Version
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

Contemporary English Version
You tried to harm me, but God made it turn out for the best, so that he could save all these people, as he is now doing.

New American Bible
Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

ye thought.

Genesis 37:4,18-20 And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him. . . .

Psalm 56:5 All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.

God meant.

Genesis 45:5-8 Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation. . . .

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Psalm 105:16,17 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. . . .

Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Isaiah 10:7 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 3:13-15,26 The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. . . .

Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.