'Against' in the Bible

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

if people don't welcome you, when you leave that city, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Jesus told him, "Don't stop him! Because whoever is not against you is for you."

"We're wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!'

and forgive us our sins, as we forgive everyone who sins against us. And never bring us into temptation.'"

Since he knew what they were thinking, he told them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is devastated, and a divided household collapses.

Now, if Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

"The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who doesn't gather with me scatters."

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation!

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit won't be forgiven.

Then he told them, "Be careful to guard yourselves against every kind of greed, because a person's life doesn't consist of the amount of possessions he has."

From now on, five people in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

"Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won't he?

I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.

Then his son told him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.'

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back to you seven times and says, "I repent,' you must forgive him."

In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, "Grant me justice against my adversary.'

Then he went on to say to them, "Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

and told them, "You brought this man to me as one who turns the people against the government. And here in your presence I have examined him and have found him "Not Guilty' of the charges you make against him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

Pilate asked him, "What is "truth'?" and then he went out to the Jewish leaders again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could not say anything against them.

The kings of the earth take their stand, and rulers meet together against the Lord and against his Messiah.'

However, if it's from God, you won't be able to stop them, and you may even discover that you are fighting against God!"

In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

They had false witnesses stand up and say, "This man never stops saying things against this Holy Place and against the Law.

By shrewdly scheming against our people, he oppressed our ancestors and forced them to abandon their infants to the elements, so that they wouldn't live.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" After he had said this, he died.

Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.

The Lord is against you now, and you'll be blind and unable to see the sun for a while!" At that moment a dark mist came over him, and he went around looking for someone to lead him by the hand.

But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.

So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

The crowd joined in the attack against them. Then the magistrates had Paul and Silas stripped of their clothes and ordered them beaten with rods.

So if Demetrius and his workers have a charge against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They should accuse one another there.

and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

yelling, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against our people, the Law, and this place. More than that, he has even brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this Holy Place."

I wanted to know the exact charge they were making against him, so I had him brought before their Council.

I found that, although he was charged with questions about their Law, there was no charge against him deserving death or imprisonment.

Since a plot against the man has been reported to me, I'm sending him to you at once, and I've also ordered his accusers to present their charges against him before you."

Five days later, the high priest Ananias arrived with certain elders and Tertullus, an attorney, and they summarized their case against Paul before the governor.

and they cannot prove to you the charges they are now bringing against me.

But some Jews from Asia were there, and they should be here before you to accuse me if they have anything against me.

The high priests and Jewish leaders informed him of their charges against Paul, urging

"Therefore," he said, "have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man."

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

Paul said in his defense, "I have done nothing wrong against the Law of the Jews, or of the Temple, or of the emperor."

If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!"

I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to sentence a man to be punished until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against the charge.

For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner without specifying the charges against him."

"I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, that I can defend myself today against all the accusations of the Jewish leaders,

Indeed, I myself thought it my duty to take extreme measures against the name of Jesus from Nazareth.

That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when I cast my vote against them, they were put to death.

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

After putting out from there, we sailed on the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

We sailed slowly for a number of days and with difficulty arrived off Cnidus. Then, because the wind was against us, we sailed on the sheltered side of Crete off Cape Salome.

Three days later, Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. When they assembled, he told them, "Brothers, although I haven't done anything against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people.

However, we'd like to hear from you what you believe, because people are talking against this sect everywhere."

For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.

Now we know that God's judgment against those who act like this is based on truth.

as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal?

How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"

What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

God has not rejected his people whom he chose long ago. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story about Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel?

When one of you has a complaint against another, does he dare to take the matter before those who are unrighteous and not before the saints?

Instead, one brother goes to court against another brother, and before unbelieving judges, at that!

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against the Messiah.

for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us.

and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the Devil's strategies.

For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.

having erased the charges that were brought against us, along with their obligations that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.

These things have the appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion, humility, and harsh treatment of the body, but they have no value against self-indulgence.

Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive.

for those involved in sexual immorality, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for false witnesses, and for whatever else goes against the healthy teaching

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported "by two or three witnesses."

At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.

Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

You have condemned and murdered the one who is righteous, even though he did not rebel against you.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.