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Jeremiah 18:18
They said,“ Come on. Let’s make plans against Jeremiah. We’ll still have priests to teach us the law. We’ll always have wise people to give us advice. We’ll have prophets to bring us messages from the Lord. So come on. Let’s speak out against Jeremiah. We shouldn’t pay any attention to what he says.”
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Psalms 140:1-5
Lord, save me from sinful people. Keep me safe from those who want to hurt me.They make evil plans in their hearts. They are always starting fights.Their tongues are as deadly as the tongue of a serpent. The words from their lips are like the poison of a snake.Lord, keep me safe from the hands of sinful people. Protect me from those who want to hurt me. They plan ways to trip me up and make me fall.Proud people have hidden their traps to catch me. They have spread out their nets. They have set traps for me along my path.
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Psalms 37:32-33
Those who are evil hide and wait for godly people. They want to kill them.But the Lord will not leave the godly in their power. He will not let them be found guilty when they are brought into court.
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Acts 23:12-15
The next morning some Jews gathered secretly to make plans against Paul. They made a promise to themselves. They promised that they would not eat or drink anything until they killed him.More than 40 men took part in this plan.They went to the chief priests and the elders. They said,“ We have made a special promise to God. We will not eat anything until we have killed Paul.Now then, you and the Sanhedrin must make an appeal to the commanding officer. Ask him to bring Paul to you. Pretend you want more facts about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.”
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Luke 23:8-24
When Herod saw Jesus, he was very pleased. He had been wanting to see Jesus for a long time. He had heard much about him. He hoped to see Jesus perform a sign of some kind.Herod asked him many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer.The chief priests and the teachers of the law were standing there. With loud shouts they brought charges against him.Herod and his soldiers laughed at him and made fun of him. They dressed him in a beautiful robe. Then they sent him back to Pilate.That day Herod and Pilate became friends. Before this time they had been enemies.Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people.He said to them,“ You brought me this man. You said he was turning the people against the authorities. I have questioned him in front of you. I have found no basis for your charges against him.Herod hasn’t either. So he sent Jesus back to us. As you can see, Jesus has done nothing that is worthy of death.So I will just have him whipped and let him go.”
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Mark 6:23-25
And he gave her his promise. He said to her,“ Anything you ask for I will give you. I’ll give you up to half my kingdom.”She went out and said to her mother,“ What should I ask for?”“ The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.At once the girl hurried to ask the king. She said,“ I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a big plate right now.”
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John 16:3
They will do things like that because they do not know the Father or me.
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Romans 3:8
Why not say,“ Let’s do evil things so that good things will happen”? Some people actually lie by reporting that this is what we say. They are the ones who will rightly be found guilty.
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Jeremiah 38:4
Then these officials said to the king,“ This man should be put to death. What he says is making the soldiers who are left in this city lose hope. It’s making all the people lose hope too. He isn’t interested in what is best for the people. In fact, he’s trying to destroy them.”
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Psalms 64:2-6
Hide me from evil people who talk about how to harm me. Hide me from those people who are planning to do evil.They make their tongues like sharp swords. They aim their mean words like deadly arrows.They shoot from their hiding places at people who aren’t guilty. They shoot quickly and aren’t afraid of being caught.They help one another make evil plans. They talk about hiding their traps. They say,“ Who can see what we are doing?”They make plans to do what is evil. They say,“ We have thought up a perfect plan!” The hearts and minds of people are so clever!
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Acts 9:2
He asked the priest for letters to the synagogues in Damascus. He wanted to find men and women who belonged to the Way of Jesus. The letters would allow him to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 23 19-1 Samuel 23 21
The people of Ziph went up to Saul at Gibeah. They said,“ David is hiding among us. He’s hiding in places of safety at Horesh. Horesh is south of Jeshimon on the hill of Hakilah.Your Majesty, come down when it pleases you to come. It will be our duty to hand David over to you.”Saul replied,“ May the Lord bless you because you were concerned about me.
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Acts 9:24
But he learned about their plan. Day and night they watched the city gates closely in order to kill him.
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Acts 26:9-11
“ I believed that I should oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. So I did everything I could to oppose his name.That’s just what I was doing in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests, I put many of the Lord’s people in prison. I agreed that they should die.I often went from one synagogue to another to have them punished. I tried to force them to speak evil things against Jesus. All I wanted to do was hurt them. I even went looking for them in the cities of other lands.
