10 Bible Verses about People Opposed

With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

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, five in a house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

Father will be 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."

Jesus said to him, "Stop hindering him, for the man who is not against you is for you."

Then the scribes and the high priests tried to arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that He meant this story for them.

Because of this Pilate kept on trying to set Him free, but the Jews shouted, "If you set Him free, you are no friend to the emperor. Anyone who claims to be a king is uttering treason against the emperor!"

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

What are we then to say to facts like these? If God is for us, who can be against us?