23 Bible Verses about People Opposed
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in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,
and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name 'Hatred.'
but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,
And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about.
And set against it do nations Round about from the provinces. And they spread out for it their net, In their pit it hath been caught.
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.
And they have come in against thee, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against thee round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged thee in their Judgments.
When I desire, then I do bind them, And gathered against them have peoples, When they bind themselves to their two iniquities.
High is thy hand above thine adversaries, And all thine enemies are cut off.
for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three;
a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'
And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, 'If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'
The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,
The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,
And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who are prophesying out of their own heart, and prophesy concerning them,
and Jacob their father saith unto them, 'Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'
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- Opposed (46 instances)