'Contrary' in the Bible
But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"
whom Jason has entertained as guests! And these [people] [are] all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus!"
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!"
Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, [you] whitewashed wall! And are you sitting [there] judging me according to the law, and acting contrary to the law do you order me to be struck?"
Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,
On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?
But I say, they have not heard, have they? On the contrary, "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world."
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?
Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!
As we said before, and now I say again, if anyone is proclaiming a gospel [to] you contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed!
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Bible Theasaurus
- Adverse (8 instances)
- Antagonistic (1 instance)
- Capricious (2 instances)
- Conflicting (1 instance)
- Contrary (120 instances)
- Converse (5 instances)
- Counter (2 instances)
- Hostile (53 instances)
- Inconsistent (5 instances)
- Obstinate (30 instances)
- Opposite (162 instances)
- Perverse (67 instances)
- Reverse (34 instances)
- Wayward (20 instances)