'Against' in the Bible

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

saying, Go into the village over against you, in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no child of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it here.

Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders, who were come against him, Have ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks?

When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

Pilate therefore went out to them and said, What accusation do ye bring against this man?

Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has the greater sin.

From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out saying, If thou releasest this man, thou art not a friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.

The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.

But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.

Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.

And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;

And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.

But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.

But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.

A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge them.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,

And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon them, and having mastered both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

If therefore Demetrius and the artisans who are with him have a matter against any one, the courts are being held, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.

And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy place.

the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.

And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the high priest of God?

whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him making him worthy of death or of bonds.

But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man by the Jews, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. Farewell.

And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.

And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against Paul, saying that these things were so.

who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul, and besought him,

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in anything.

concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him:

but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against him that he ought not to live any longer.

for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.

I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.

And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out of our own land.

And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against goads.

And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, I having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.

But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.

who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us?

Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies:

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them.

But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where there are two or three witnesses.

Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works.

Against whom be thou also on thy guard, for he has greatly withstood our words.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge.

Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.

when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.

For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts them out of the assembly.

Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against him, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.