26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked person plots against the righteous, and grinds his teeth at him.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

Whoever winks knowingly is plotting deceit; anyone who purses his lips is bent towards evil.

The Pharisees, however, went out and plotted against Jesus to kill him.

If the king approves, let it be decreed that they're to be destroyed, and I'll measure out 10,000 silver talents and bring it to the king's treasury for those who will do the work."

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

planning evil with a perverse mind, continually stirring up discord.

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

They conspired to arrest Jesus by treachery and to kill him.

When morning came, all the high priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put him to death.

The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.

Then he began teaching in the Temple every day. The high priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him,

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

Now as soon as they saw him approaching from a distance, before he arrived they plotted together to kill him.

They gathered together against Moses and Aaron and told them, "You have appropriated too much for yourselves from the entire congregation, since all of them are holy, and the LORD is among them, too. Why do you exalt yourselves over the LORD's assembly?"

Then Jerubbaal's son Abimelech went to his mother's relatives in Shechem. He spoke to the entire family of his mother's father, telling them,

His servants rose up in rebellion, formed a conspiracy, and assassinated Joash in the palace at the terrace ramparts while he was on his way down to Silla.

A conspiracy arose against him in Jerusalem, and he ran off to Lachish, but he was pursued to Lachish and killed there.

Because of this, the administrators and regional authorities tried to bring allegations of dereliction of duty in government affairs against Daniel, but they were unable to find any charges of corruption. Daniel was trustworthy, and no evidence of negligence or corruption could be found against him.

In the morning, the Jewish leaders formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.