29 occurrences

'Adversaries' in the Bible

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!Many are rising up against me.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfMany Enemies

My eye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected ByEyes Harmedgrieving

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries,And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.

Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualGod ArisingThe Final JudgementGod Will Be AngryEnemy Attacks

His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

Verse ConceptsNosesPride, Results OfSelf Righteousness, Nature OfNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsThe Wicked Prosperrehabilitationprospering

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

Verse ConceptsdefeatRejoicing In Evil

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Verse ConceptsStumblingDownfallPeople OvercomingEnemiesProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,For false witnesses have risen against me,And such as breathe out violence.

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodWitnesses, FalseOvercoming EnemiesSurrenderProtection From Enemiesbreathing

Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach,Especially to my neighbors,And an object of dread to my acquaintances;Those who see me in the street flee from me.

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAgony, Of BodyAgony, DeathSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfDerisionGod Not ExistingAll DayWhere Is God?

Through You we will push back our adversaries;Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

Verse ConceptsBattlesPromised VictoryOvercoming

But You have saved us from our adversaries,And You have put to shame those who hate us.

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From EnemiesEnemieshatersdevotion

Through God we shall do valiantly,And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahBeing Strong

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor;All my adversaries are before You.

Verse ConceptsShameGod, All knowingBeing ReprovedShame Will Come

Let those who are adversaries of my soul be ashamed and consumed;Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;They have set up their own standards for signs.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseGroups ShoutingFlags

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

Verse ConceptsNot Forgetting

He drove His adversaries backward;He put on them an everlasting reproach.

Verse Conceptsevangelising

“I would quickly subdue their enemiesAnd turn My hand against their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesSubject To GodEnemy Attacks

“But I shall crush his adversaries before him,And strike those who hate him.

Verse ConceptsChrist OvercomingHatehaterscrushes

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Verse ConceptsEvil For The Right HandRejoicing In Evil

Fire goes before HimAnd burns up His adversaries round about.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyBurning People

And He caused His people to be very fruitful,And made them stronger than their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalGod Strengthening Peoplefruitfulness

The waters covered their adversaries;Not one of them was left.

Verse ConceptsPeople Passing Away

Through God we will do valiantly,And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahGod's Willbaseball

His heart is upheld, he will not fear,Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.

Verse ConceptsVictory, As An Act Of GodFearlessnessFreed From Fearfearless

My zeal has consumed me,Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

Verse ConceptsTirednessFervourZealousness, Examples Of

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.

Verse ConceptsMany Enemies

And has rescued us from our adversaries,For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From Enemies

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Adversaries (113 instances)
Adversary (115 instances)
Antagonist (3 instances)
Opponent (18 instances)
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