⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

¹³ For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.

⁵ All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶ They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

²⁰ For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

³ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

⁴ They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

²⁰ For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;