26 Bible Verses about Plotting
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[The] wicked plans [evil] against the righteous, and gnashes at him [with] his teeth.
For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.
Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
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He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.
But the Pharisees went out {and plotted} against him in order that they could destroy him.
If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.
and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].
Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.
But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.
And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.
And he went away [and] discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he could betray him to them.
And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!
And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh [is] in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"
And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father,
Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash [in] the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.
They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent [men] after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.
And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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Plotting » Against Christ
But the Pharisees went out {and plotted} against him in order that they could destroy him.
and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].
Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.
But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.
And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.
Plotting » General examples of
They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh [is] in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"
Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash [in] the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.
Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.
But the Pharisees went out {and plotted} against him in order that they could destroy him.
They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent [men] after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
Plotting » General references to
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.