31 But God Bible Verses

Some of my favorite scriptures are the “but God” Bible verses found throughout God’s word. But God are two of the most powerful words in God’s Word.

“But God” brings hope when we can’t see a way through.
“But God” means ashes aren’t the end of our story.
And “But God” says God, not our circumstances, always gets the last word.

I saw the power of “but God” recently as I sat across the table from my close friend as she unwrapped the events of the last few months. On a normal day, doing ordinary paperwork, she’d uncovered something odd. The more she researched, the more she learned and like pulling a stray thread, her life unraveled before her.

Her marriage had been destroyed by deceit and infidelity. She’d lost considerable money through the deceit as well and she had no idea how to move forward much less help her children walk through their own tangled grief.

I had no solutions. And while I listened with compassion and prayed for her, I wondered how this overwhelming situation would end.

When we’re up against staggering circumstances, parenting struggles, razor-thin finances, or a new diagnosis, we may see no way out. We’re helpless to fix it and nor do we know the way through.

But God.

God doesn’t just redeem us for himself. He redeems our stories for himself.

God is a Redeemer and he redeems all things offered to him. What the enemy means for evil — to steal, kill and destroy our faith, our families, friendships and more – God intends for good.

Joseph declared this. He’d been thrown into a pit; sold as a slave; taken from everything he knew and loved; separated from family for decades; wrongly accused despite his honesty, hard work and integrity; wrongly imprisoned; and left in prison despite his hard work and innocence.

Through all of it, Joseph could say that his brothers “intended to harm [him], but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”

This didn’t dawn on Joseph once he saw the ending. This was a guiding principle – that God no matter the circumstances, God holds the ending.

When we are God’s, Satan never triumphs. While he may press, though people may disappoint, though life as we know it can unravel, they don’t get the final say!

There is always, always, always a but God.

I dove into scripture a few weeks ago to find all the but God Bible verses and was blown away. These two powerful words are found throughout the Old and New Testaments. Because it’s how God works.

And it should be our guiding principle before we ever see the ending.

Take a look at these but God Bible verses. Click here if you’d like a printable version of all 31 but God Bible verses.

31 But God Bible Verses

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

Genesis 31:7
Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.

Genesis 31:23-24
. . .he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead. But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.

Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers

Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8T
he LORD did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth. But the LORD loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt.

1 Samuel 23:14
David stayed in the desert strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

1 Kings 5:4
But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or disaster.

2 Chronicles 20:15
And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

Psalm 49:14-15
They are like sheep and are destined to die. . . .But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.

Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 86:15
But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

Hosea 1:7
Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.

Jonah 2:6
To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.

Acts 2:24
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

Acts 3:15
You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead.

Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

Acts 10:28
He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God  has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.

Acts 13:29-30
When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead . . .

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:27
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

1 Corinthians 2:10
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard . . . the things which God has prepared for those who love Him . . . But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able . . .

Galatians 1:15-16
You also heard how I was far ahead of other Jews in my age group in following the Jewish religion. I had become that fanatical for the traditions of my ancestors. But God, who appointed me before I was born and who called me by his kindness, was pleased to show me his Son. . .

Galatians 3:18
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

2 Timothy 2:9
. . .for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained.

Job 28:23
But God understands the way to wisdom, and he knows its location.

Ephesians 2:1,3;4-5
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins. . . and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved . . .

These verses tell us that our circumstances DO NOT get the last word.

The enemy DOES NOT get the last word.

Death and disease DO NOT get the last word.

Because there is always, always, always a but God.

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