Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
5 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “against” →
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
