26 Bible Verses about Plotting

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Psalm 37:12

Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

Psalm 31:13

For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

Psalm 35:4

May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated! May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Micah 2:1

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

Proverbs 16:30

The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

Esther 3:9

If the king is so inclined, let an edict be issued to destroy them. I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to be conveyed to the king's treasuries for the officials who carry out this business."

Psalm 36:4

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

Isaiah 32:7

A deceiver's methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

Matthew 26:4

They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Matthew 27:1

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

Luke 19:47

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Luke 22:4

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

John 5:16

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

John 11:47

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

Genesis 37:18

Now Joseph's brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Numbers 16:3

And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?"

Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother's relatives. He said to them and to his mother's entire extended family,

2 Kings 12:20

His servants conspired against him and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

2 Kings 14:19

Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.

Daniel 6:4

Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption.

Acts 23:12

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

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Plotting » Against Christ

Matthew 26:4

They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Matthew 27:1

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

Luke 19:47

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Plotting » General examples of

Numbers 16:3

And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?"

2 Kings 12:20

His servants conspired against him and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

Daniel 6:4

Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption.

2 Kings 14:19

Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.

Plotting » General references to

Micah 2:1

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

Psalm 36:4

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

Esther 3:9

If the king is so inclined, let an edict be issued to destroy them. I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to be conveyed to the king's treasuries for the officials who carry out this business."

Isaiah 32:7

A deceiver's methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

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