'Opposing' in the Bible
They began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is the Messiah, a King.”
"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision [certain Jewish believers who followed the Law] took issue with him [for violating Jewish customs],
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
But since the Jews kept resisting and opposing him, and blaspheming [God], he shook out his robe and said to them, “Your blood (damnation) be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.
So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.
because a door has opened wide for me to do effective work, although many people are opposing me.
and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;
who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- the day doth not come.
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,
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