Quotes about Plotting

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.

But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.

the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.