26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The ungodly layeth wait for the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel 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 imagine mischief for me.

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.

He that winketh with his eyes, imagineth mischief; and he that biteth his lips, will do some harm.

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

If it please the king, let him write that they may be destroyed, and so will I weigh down ten thousand talents of silver, under the hands of the workmen, to be brought into the king's chamber."

He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.

These are the perilous weapons of the covetous, these be his shameful counsels: that he may beguile the poor with deceitful works, yea, even there as he should give sentence with the poor.

and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,

And they were filled full of madness, and communed one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

And he taught daily in the temple. The high priests and the scribes and the chief of the people, went about to destroy him;

and he went his way, and communed with the high priests and officers, how he might betray him to them.

And therefore the Jews did persecute Jesus, and sought the means to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles.

From that day forth they held a counsel together for to put him to death.

And when they saw him afar off before he came at them, they took counsel against him, for to slay him,

And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?"

For Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them and with all his mother's father's kindred, saying,

And his own servants arose and wrought treason, and slew Jehoash in the house Millo, in the way down to Silla.

And they conspired great treason against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they went after him to Lachish and slew him there.

Wherefore the princes and lords sought to pick out in Daniel some quarrel against the kingdom: yet could they find none occasion nor fault upon him. For why? He was so faithful, that there was no blame nor dishonesty found in him.

When day was come, certain of the Jews gathered themselves together, and made a vow saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.