Bible verse
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28 · BSB
Verse 29 defines it, and it is not comfort: those God foreknew he "predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son." The good being promised is being made like Christ. That can run straight through the thing you are asking to be spared.
Paul also says the things work together for good — not that each of them is good. He had just finished writing that creation groans and that we do not know what to pray for. This is not a verse that says the bad thing was secretly fine.
It is a hard comfort rather than a soft one, and it is the kind that survives contact with a real loss.
The verses around it, from Romans 8.
24 For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
25 But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
27 And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
KJV
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
ASV
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
ERV
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
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