23 Bible Verses about People Opposed
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correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.
But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.
Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.
Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three.
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar."
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
"And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds. Prophesy against them
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me."
