24 occurrences

'Contrary' in the Bible

"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of HostilitySevenfold

"'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

Verse ConceptsSevenfoldGod Opposing

"'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Verse ConceptsChastisementSevenfoldGod Opposing

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

Verse ConceptsTreacherySin ConfessedConfession of sinForgiving Yourselfconfessingactinggrandfathers

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

Verse ConceptsHumilityGod OpposingUncircumcised In Heart

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

Verse ConceptsWindFar From HereThe Sea Stirred Uplakes

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

Verse ConceptsNightPassing ByChrist's Knowledge Of BelieversRowingharassment

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

Verse ConceptsdefianceKingship, DivineTreasonFalse Accusations, Examples OfWelcoming BelieversDifferent Personacting

saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

Verse ConceptsIntoleranceInciting To EvilHow Not To WorshipBreaking God's Law

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In NtInjustice, Nature And Source OfJudgment SeatSittingWallsWhiteDenunciationsFigurative WallsGod Beating PeopleWhitewashingBreaking God's Law

"I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Verse Conceptssailing

But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

Verse ConceptsObstinacy Against GodHand Of GodGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched Outdisobediencerebellion

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Verse ConceptsOlivesParticipation, In ChristTreesCutting Off BranchesJoined To The ChurchOlive Treescutting

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofPreaching, Importance OfSelf ConfidenceStewardshipEntrustingThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

Verse ConceptsExcommunicationKilling ProphetsProphets KilledChrist Was KilledNot Pleasing GodRaceprophets

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Verse ConceptsTradeSound DoctrineThe End Of LiarsDefilementgaysSexual ImmoralityBeing GayGay MarriageSame Sex MarriageSexual Purity

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)