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Mark 3:2
They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.
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Luke 11:37
As he spoke, a Pharisee invited Jesus to have a meal with him, so he went in and took his place at the table.
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Jeremiah 20:10-11
I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“ Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“ Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.But the LORD is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.
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Psalms 62:4
They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses.( Selah)
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Isaiah 29:20-21
For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“ Who will see them?”They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.
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Psalms 37:32
Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
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Luke 20:20
Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
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Psalms 41:6
When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.
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Luke 6:7
The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.
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Proverbs 23:7
for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind.“ Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
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Luke 11:53-54
When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
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1 Corinthians 9 19-1 Corinthians 9 22
For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law( though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.To those free from the law I became like one free from the law( though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.
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John 3:1
Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,
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Luke 7:34-36
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,‘ Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.
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Acts 5:34
But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.