'Against' in the Bible
Symeon blessed them and said to Mary the mother, "This child is appointed for the falling and the uprising of many in Israel and for a token to be spoken against;
and 'On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"
The Scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath that they might be able to bring an accusation against Him.
But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house."
Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."
"Do not forbid him," said Jesus, "for he who is not against you is on your side."
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever is not gathering with me is scattering abroad.
"Moreover every one who shall speak against the Son of Man, may obtain forgiveness; but he who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never obtain forgiveness.
And to the people He said, "Take care, be on your guard against all covetousness, for no one's life consists in the superabundance of his possessions."
For from this time there will be in one house five persons split into parties. Three will form a party against two and two will form a party against three;
father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law her mother-in-law."
Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you:
"'Father,' cried the son, 'I have sinned against Heaven and before you: no longer do I deserve to be called a son of yours.'
Then He said to them, "Nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
"You have brought this man to me on a charge of corrupting the loyalty of the people. But, you see, I have examined him in your presence and have discovered in the man no ground for the accusations which you bring against him.
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