10 Bible Verses about People Opposed

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

but after we had already suffered and been shamefully treated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

For I have come to set a man 'against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

For from now on there will be five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

But Jesus said to him, "Do not forbid him, for he that is not against you is for you."

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the peoplefor they knew that he had spoken this parable against them.

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Anyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."

Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?