26 Bible Verses about Plotting

Zain The wicked plots against the just and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

Then the Pharisees went out and took council against him that they might destroy him.

If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the public works, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

He devises iniquity upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.

Certainly the greedy use evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment against the poor.

and took counsel that they might take Jesus by guile and kill him.

When the morning was come, all the princes of the priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death,

And they were filled with madness and talked one with another about what they might do to Jesus.

And he taught daily in the temple. But the princes of the priests and the scribes and the principals of the people sought to kill him

And he went and spoke with the princes of the priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him: because he had done these things on a sabbath.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many signs.

So that from that day forth they took counsel together to kill him.

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them, We have had enough of you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; why then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

And Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

And his slaves arose and made a conspiracy and slew Joash in the house of Millo, as he was going down to Silla.

Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and slew him there.

Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together and they vowed under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.