26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

If it pleases 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 are in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries."

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

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

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

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, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?"

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,

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

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 as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.