26 Bible Verses about Plotting

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Psalm 37:12

[The] wicked plans [evil] against the righteous, and gnashes at him [with] his teeth.

Psalm 31:13

For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

Psalm 35:4

Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.

Micah 2:1

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."

Psalm 36:4

He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.

Isaiah 32:7

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

Matthew 26:4

and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].

Matthew 27:1

Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 19:47

And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

Luke 22:4

And he went away [and] discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he could betray him to them.

John 5:16

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

John 11:47

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

Genesis 37:18

And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Numbers 16:3

They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh [is] in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"

Judges 9:1

And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father,

2 Kings 12:20

Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash [in] the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.

2 Kings 14:19

They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent [men] after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

Daniel 6:4

Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.

Acts 23:12

And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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Plotting » Against Christ

Matthew 26:4

and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill [him].

Matthew 27:1

Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 19:47

And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

Plotting » General examples of

Numbers 16:3

They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh [is] in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"

2 Kings 12:20

Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash [in] the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.

Daniel 6:4

Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.

2 Kings 14:19

They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent [men] after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

Plotting » General references to

Micah 2:1

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Psalm 36:4

He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."

Isaiah 32:7

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

More verses: Psalm 37:12

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