Quotes about Scheming

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

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.

waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

They were delighted and agreed to give him money.

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,