23 Bible Verses about People Opposed

correcting those who are opposed with gentleness, [seeing] whether perhaps God may grant them repentance to a knowledge of the truth,

And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah.

but [after we] had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.

"Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I [am] stirring up your lovers against you [concerning] whom you turned away, and I will bring them against you from all around:

And nations set out against him {from the surrounding provinces}, and they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Bring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder.

And they will come against you [with] an army chariot and wagon and with a crowd of peoples; they will set [themselves] against you [from] all around [with] large shield and small shield and helmet. And I will give {before them} judgment, and they will judge you with their judgments.

In my desire I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for {their double iniquities}.

Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off.

For I have come to turn 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 there will be five in one household, 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."

But Jesus said to him, "Do not prevent [him], because whoever is not against you is for you."

And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay [their] hands on him at [that] same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them.

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

The most refined and the very sensitive man among you {shall be mean with his brother} and {against his beloved wife} and against the rest of his children that he has left over,

The most refined and the [most] delicate [woman] among you, who shall not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being [so] delicate and from [such] gentleness, {shall be mean to her beloved husband} and against her son and against her daughter,

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

"And you, son of man, place your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their {imagination}, and prophesy against them!

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.

And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me--Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this [is] against me!