85 occurrences

'Against' in the Bible

{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfMany Enemies

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentRebellion, Against GodFruits Of SinDriven Away By GodFound GuiltyRebellion against GodGuilt

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsGod's ArrowsWeapons Of GodArrowsinstruments

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversCharacter Of WickedHelplessnessLooking At People For EvilJudged As Murderersrehabilitation

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Verse ConceptsdefeatRejoicing In Evil

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Verse ConceptsBackbitinggossiping

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

Verse ConceptsLovingkindnessRight Hand Of GodTrust, Importance OfLoving Kindness Of GodRight Sides

He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

Verse ConceptsViolenceRescue From ViolenceGod Lifting PeopleGod Saving From EnemiesProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Verse ConceptsGod's ArrowsTurning One's BackTargets

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Verse ConceptsCertaintyStrength, DivineRenewed HeartFearlessnessAttacked By EvilFreed From FearPrinciples Of WarStrength In BattleEnemy Attacks

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodWitnesses, FalseOvercoming EnemiesSurrenderProtection From Enemiesbreathing

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAliancesTrapCharacter AssassinationPlottingAttempting To Kill MeFear Will Cometerrorism

{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightBattleEnemy Attacksstriving

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Verse ConceptsAxesPursuing ViolenceThrowing SpearsWeapons Of GodGod My Salvationdeliverance

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Verse ConceptsUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedPeople StumblingNot Knowing PeopleRejoicing In Evil

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Verse ConceptsClaimsDeception In Fallen Human NatureQuietnessPeace, In The WickedDeceitful TonguesNo Peace

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsDespising PeopleSeeing Situations

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionHumiliationClothed With Bad ThingsRejoicing In EvilHurt

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Verse ConceptsFeetExcommunicationProud Peoplearrogance

{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Verse ConceptsEvildoersInsecurityAvoid EnvyDo Not Be AnxiousWorryingTrusting God And Not Worryingprospering

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Verse ConceptsBitingEvil PlansTeethWickedGnashing Of TeethPlottingBackstabbers

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingRejoicing In Evil

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Verse ConceptsWhispering Of EvilPeople Being HatedUnder One's BreathHurthaters

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersInjustice, Hated By GodRescueGod Vindicatesvindication

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Verse ConceptsBattlesPromised VictoryOvercoming

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Verse ConceptsThe Witness Of GodI Will Be Their God

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfGod, Righteousness OfJustification, Necessity OfLast JudgmentSin, Nature OfOvercoming

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGuilty FearBonesTerror Of GodBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfAttempting To Kill MePsalm Interjections

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Verse ConceptsFriendsBest FriendsFunHurt And BetrayalEnemy Attacksbackstabbing

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

Verse ConceptsMany EnemiesBattlestrivingredeemed

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

Verse ConceptsAttacked By EvilBreaking The CovenantFriendship And Trust

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Verse ConceptsMusicGod Saving From EnemiesGod's ProtectionProtection From EnemiesProtection And SafetyEnemy AttacksProtecting Your Family

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Verse ConceptsOffenceWaitingAmbushNo SinWaiting On The LordEnemy Attacksgathering

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

Verse ConceptsFaultsA Forgiving GodBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

Verse ConceptsFaultsDesire For DeathMan's CounselEnemy Attacks

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodClaimsSelf Exaltation

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Verse ConceptsThe Saints, Without OffenceIsrael As Sons Of GodHurt And Betrayal

{Maschil of Asaph.} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentPeople Of God, In OtFeelings Of Rejection By GodSelf PitySheepSuffering, Of The InnocentWill God Be Angry?Rejectionsmoking

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Verse ConceptsNot Forgetting

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against God

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Verse ConceptsFaultsTablesInfidelity To GodSkepticismGod Feeds All The Earth

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod Forgetting

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Verse ConceptsBefore God ActsWill God Be Angry?Anger And Forgiveness

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesSubject To GodEnemy Attacks

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesTrapAllegiancesCovenant RelationshipsConspiracyMaking Decisions

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofenemies, of believersPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedAttempting To Kill MeIn Front

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Verse ConceptsSustaining ProvidenceStriking RocksBeing Struck With StonesHurthurting

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Verse ConceptsdefeatLooking Intently At PeopleEnemy Attacks

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Verse ConceptsSupportwickedness

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofEvil SpeakingLossUnceasingContinual HardshipBeing ReprovedUngodly CursingSwearing

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSupernatural Darkness

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Verse ConceptsGod Hating People

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Verse ConceptsThe TongueLying And Deceitlieing

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPeople Being HatedEnemy Attacks

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Verse ConceptsEvil SpeakingMeditationMeditation On God's Word

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Verse ConceptsGod For UsGod Being With UsRosesEnemy Attacks

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Verse ConceptsUnnamed People Angry With Others

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Verse ConceptsTreatment From YouthPersecutionOvercoming Hard TimesEnemy Attacks

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Verse Conceptsaccomplishment

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Verse ConceptsHatredHating EvilHating GodHatehaters

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