43 Bible Verses about enemies, of Jesus Christ

And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it. And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt, and was there till the death of Herod; that the word might be fulfilled, which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying; Out of Egypt have I called my son.read more.
Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi. Thus was fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not. And when Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead that sought the young child's life.

And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt, and was there till the death of Herod; that the word might be fulfilled, which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying; Out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.read more.
Thus was fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not. And when Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead that sought the young child's life.

And a great symbol appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, and being with child she cried out in pain and distress to give it birth. And there appeared another symbol in heaven, and behold, a great fiery dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and upon his heads seven diadems,read more.
and his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them on the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear [a child], that when she had borne he might devour her son. And she bore a male child, who is about to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

And the Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the beasts; and the angels waited on him.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.read more.
And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again it is written, You shall not try the Lord your God. Again the devil took him away on a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, and said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, Get behind me Satan; for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and waited on him.

AND Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, being tempted by the devil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were completed he was hungry. And the devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.read more.
And Jesus answered him, It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone. And taking him up he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of these; for it is given to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, therefore, will worship me, it all shall be yours. And Jesus answered and said to him, It is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve. And he brought him to Jerusalem and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here; for it is written, He will charge his angels concerning you, to guard you, and they shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. And Jesus answered and said to him, It is said, You shall not try the Lord your God. And the devil having finished all the temptation, departed from him for a time.

And Peter taking hold of him said, rebuking him, Far be it from you, Lord! This shall not be to you. But he turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me! For you regard not the things of God, but those of men.

And Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve;

Having said these things Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, I tell you most truly, that one of you shall betray me. The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke. One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining on the bosom of Jesus.read more.
Then Simon Peter made signs to this man, and said to him, Ask who it is of whom he speaks. He, falling down on the breast of Jesus, said to him, Lord, who is it? Then Jesus answered, It is he to whom I will dip and give the mouthful. Then dipping the mouthful, he took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. And after the mouthful, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly.

and the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him to destroy him.

And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians, and took counsel against him to kill him.

And they were filled with madness, and conferred with each other as to what they should do to Jesus.

AND when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to kill him.

Then, for this reason, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.

From that day, therefore, they took counsel to kill him.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps, who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,read more.
who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

But [they do this] that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.

Then went one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot to the chief priests, and said, What will you give me to deliver him to you? And they gave him thirty [shekels] of silver [$16.80]. And from that time he sought a good opportunity to deliver him up.

Simon, the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

And as they were eating, he said, I tell you truly, that one of you will betray me. And being grieved exceedingly, they each one began to say to him, Lord, is it I? But he answered and said, He that dips his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me.read more.
The Son of man goes indeed, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it would be good for him if that man had not been born. And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Is it I, Rabbi? He said to him, As you say.

He, falling down on the breast of Jesus, said to him, Lord, who is it? Then Jesus answered, It is he to whom I will dip and give the mouthful. Then dipping the mouthful, he took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. And after the mouthful, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly.

this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked,

Pilate said to them, What then shall I do to Jesus, called Christ? They all said, Let him be crucified.

And immediately in the morning, the chief priests taking counsel with the elders, and scribes, and all the Sanhedrim, bound Jesus, and brought and delivered him to Pilate.

THEN they led him from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. And it was morning; and they entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Then Pilate went out to them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man? They answered and said to him, If he was not a criminal we should not have delivered him up to you.read more.
Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any one to death; that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what death he was about to die.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him;

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And distributing his garments they cast lots [for them].

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;

BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest and asked of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of that way, he might bring them bound, men and women, to Jerusalem. And he was going and had come nigh to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven,read more.
and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why do you persecute me? And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. But arise and enter into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.

and I persecuted this way to death, binding and committing to prison both men and women, as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean, which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them. And punishing them often in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.

For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,

For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy, death, shall be destroyed,

The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool?

For David ascended not to heaven, but he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand

Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;read more.
who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.

Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was with you I told you of these things?read more.
And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time. For the mystery of wickedness already works, [God] only restrains it just now, till it shall be out of the way; and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,

And to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool?

henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool.