23 Bible Verses about People Opposed

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.

"Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:

The nations -- the surrounding regions -- attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

"For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

They will attack you with weapons, chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; they will punish you according to their laws.

When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.

Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!

For I have come to set a man against his father, 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 household 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 her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

But Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you."

Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

"As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I am not afraid of the multitude of people who attack me from all directions.

Their father Jacob said to them, "You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me."