23 Bible Verses about People Opposed
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in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth,
And they dug another well, and they strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah.
but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.
Therefore, Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side.
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up an assemblage against them, and will give them to be driven hither and thither and spoiled.
And they shall come against thee with armour, chariots and wheels, and with an assemblage of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with target, and shield, and helmet round about; and I will put judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
At my pleasure will I chastise them; and the peoples shall be assembled against them, when they are bound for their two iniquities.
Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;
for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:
father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.
From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out saying, If thou releasest this man, thou art not a friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.
The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;
The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,
But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;
And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set themselves against me round about.
And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me.
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- Opposed (46 instances)