'Opposes' in the Bible
If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!"
But the Lord opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.
The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
"For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and do opposes the LORD; they keep defying him.
Surely a son considers his father a fool,a daughter opposes her mother,and a daughter-in-law is against her mother-in-law;a man’s enemies are the men of his own household.
From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”
so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.
and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."
For the Lord watches the righteous, and he pays attention to their prayers. But the Lord opposes those who do wrong."
In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."
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