25 Verses About Contrary from 12 Books

1 Thessalonians 2:15

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;

1 Timothy 1:10

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

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Acts 17:7

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

Acts 18:13

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

Acts 23:3

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?"

Acts 26:9

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



Acts 27:4

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

Additions to Esther 6:4

declared to us that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, who had laws contrary to all nations and continually despised the commandments of kings, so that the uniting of our kingdoms, honorably intended by us, cannot go forward.

Galatians 2:7

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

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Leviticus 26:21

"'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.

Leviticus 26:23

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

Leviticus 26:24

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



Leviticus 26:27

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

Leviticus 26:28

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

Leviticus 26:40

"'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,

Leviticus 26:41

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;

Luke 11:28

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

Mark 6:48

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,

Matthew 14:24

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



Psalms 119:85

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Romans 10:21

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

Romans 11:24

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?

Romans 16:17

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.





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