23 Bible Verses about People Opposed
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in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
For I came to set a man at odds 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 house 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 her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people -- for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
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