5 Bible Verses about Craftiness

and took counsel together to get hold of Jesus by craft and have him put to death.

But he noted their knavery and said to them,

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk. They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour. Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

"Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother. The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh. read more.
After them all, the woman died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her."

As they were at table eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me." They got distressed at this, and said to him one after another, "Surely it is not me?" "Surely it is not me?" "One of the twelve," he told them, "one who is dipping into the same dish as I am. read more.
The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!" And as they were eating he took a loaf, and after the blessing he broke and gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it means my body." He also took a cup and after thanking God he gave it to them, and they all drank of it;

At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them. So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly. read more.
Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" But he noted their knavery and said to them, "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. "Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise. For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it; I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

and took counsel together to get hold of Jesus by craft and have him put to death.

The passover and the festival of unleavened bread fell two days later; so the high priests and scribes were trying how to get hold of him by craft and have him put to death.