26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,

For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Whoever winks his eyes plansdishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."

He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,

He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them.

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.