26 Bible Verses about Plotting

The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.

But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have charge of the affairs, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.

deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;

And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.

But they were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.

And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

And he went away and spoke with the chief priests and captains as to how he should deliver him up to them.

And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.

The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.

And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.

and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, It is enough; for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah is among them; and why do ye lift up yourselves above the congregation of Jehovah?

Now Abim'elech the son of Jerubba'al went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash in the house of Millo, at the descent of Silla.

And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a pretext against Daniel with respect to the kingdom; but they could not find any pretext or fault; inasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.