26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked person schemes against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him.

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

Let those who seek to kill me
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.

Though they intend to harm you
and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

The one who narrows his eyes is planning deceptions;
the one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury.”

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

He always plots evil with perversity in his heart—
he stirs up trouble.

The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;
he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,
even when the poor says what is right.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Every day He was teaching in the temple complex. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to destroy Him,

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and temple police how he could hand Him over to them.

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.

They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”

Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and spoke to them and to all his maternal grandfather’s clan, saying,

Joash’s servants conspired against him and killed him at Beth-millo on the road that goes down to Silla.

A conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. However, men were sent after him to Lachish, and they put him to death there.

The administrators and satraps, therefore, kept trying to find a charge against Daniel regarding the kingdom. But they could find no charge or corruption, for he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.