26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.

For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He who shuts his eyes devises perverse things. He who moves his lips brings evil to pass.

But when they went out, the Pharisees held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.

And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.

But having become morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held consultation against Jesus in order to condemn him to death.

But they were filled with fury, and deliberated with each other what they might do to Jesus.

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scholars sought to destroy him, even the foremost men of the people.

And having departed, he conversed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him to them.

And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a Sabbath.

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What are we doing? Because this man does many signs.

So from that day they consulted together so that they might kill him.

And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, Ye take too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and LORD is among them. Why then do ye lift up yourselves

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla.

And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.