26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.

Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who spreads strife.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the afflicted with slander,
Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.

Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;

But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.

And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers how he might betray Him to them.

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.

So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.

They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother’s father, saying,

His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.

They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.