'Contrary' in the Bible
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.
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)