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The term "contrary" in the Bible often refers to opposition, resistance, or being in conflict with God's will, commands, or nature. It is used to describe actions, attitudes, or conditions that are opposite to what is expected or desired by God. The concept of being contrary is significant in understanding the relationship between God and humanity, particularly in the context of obedience and rebellion.

Old Testament Usage

In the Old Testament, the idea of being contrary is frequently associated with the Israelites' disobedience to God's commandments. Leviticus 26 provides a clear depiction of this concept. In this chapter, God outlines the blessings for obedience and the consequences for disobedience. Verses 21 and 23-24 state: "If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times according to your sins. And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins" (Leviticus 26:21, 23-24). Here, the term "hostility" is synonymous with being contrary, highlighting the reciprocal nature of God's response to human rebellion.

The prophets also address the contrary nature of the people. In Ezekiel 20:8, God recounts the rebellion of the Israelites: "But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me; none of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt" . This passage illustrates the persistent contrary behavior of the Israelites despite God's guidance and patience.

New Testament Usage

In the New Testament, the concept of being contrary is often linked to the rejection of the Gospel and the opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ. In Romans 10:21, Paul quotes Isaiah to describe Israel's resistance: "But as for Israel He says: 'All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people'" . The term "obstinate" reflects a contrary attitude toward God's message of salvation through Christ.

The Apostle Paul also faced contrary individuals in his ministry. In Acts 13:45, when Paul and Barnabas were preaching in Antioch, it is recorded: "But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him" . This opposition to the Gospel message is a clear example of being contrary to God's redemptive plan.

Theological Implications

Theologically, being contrary to God is rooted in the sinful nature of humanity. It reflects a heart that is resistant to God's authority and a will that is set against His purposes. This contrariness is not only an external act of disobedience but also an internal condition of the heart. The Bible teaches that such a state leads to separation from God and necessitates repentance and transformation through the Holy Spirit.

In the Christian life, believers are called to abandon contrary ways and align themselves with God's will. Romans 12:2 exhorts believers: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God" . This transformation involves a shift from a contrary disposition to one that seeks to please God and follow His commands.

Practical Application

Understanding the concept of being contrary is crucial for personal spiritual growth. Believers are encouraged to examine their lives for areas of resistance to God's will and to seek His guidance in overcoming these tendencies. Through prayer, study of Scripture, and fellowship with other believers, Christians can cultivate a heart that is receptive to God's leading and aligned with His purposes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.

2. (a.) Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.

3. (a.) Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

4. (a.) Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.

5. (n.) A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.

6. (n.) An opponent; an enemy.

7. (n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.

8. (n.) See Contraries.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CONTRARY

kon'-tra-ri (qeri; enantios): In the Old Testament it has the sense of antagonistic, as one person opposed or hostile to the other, especially in Leviticus 26:21, 23, 14, 27, 28, 40, 41, where Yahweh declares His attitude toward the people in such phrases as: "If ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath."

In the New Testament it has a more varied significance and is applied to both material and human relations as simply opposite, set over against an object or thing. Used of the wind as in Matthew 14:24 Mark 6:48 Acts 27:4, where it is spoken of as contrary. Refers also to conflicting doctrines, customs or beliefs, as 1 Timothy 1:10, "and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine." Several other Greek words are translated with almost an identical meaning. Occasionally a prefix gives a slightly different shade of meaning.

Walter G. Clippinger

Greek

5121. tounantion -- on the contrary
... on the contrary. Part of Speech: Adverb, Correlative Transliteration: tounantion
Phonetic Spelling: (too-nan-tee'-on) Short Definition: on the contrary ...
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3304. menoun and menounge -- rather, on the contrary
... rather, on the contrary. Part of Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle Transliteration:
menoun and menounge Phonetic Spelling: (men-oon'-geh) Short Definition ...
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3861. paradoxos -- contrary to opinion or expectation
... contrary to opinion or expectation. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration:
paradoxos Phonetic Spelling: (par-ad'-ox-os) Short Definition: unexpected, strange ...
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1727. enantios -- opposite, fig. hostile, opposed
... opposed. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: enantios Phonetic Spelling:
(en-an-tee'-os) Short Definition: opposite, opposed, contrary, the adversary ...
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3891. paranomeo -- to transgress the law
... to transgress the law. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: paranomeo Phonetic
Spelling: (par-an-om-eh'-o) Short Definition: I act contrary to law Definition ...
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480. antikeimai -- to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
... Word Origin from anti and keimai Definition to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
NASB Word Usage adversaries (1), contrary (1), enemy (1), opponents (3 ...
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561. apenanti -- over against, before
... Word Origin from apo and enanti Definition over against, before NASB Word
Usage before (1), contrary (1), opposite (1), presence (1). ...
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3848. parabates -- one who stands beside
... breaker. Cognate: 3848 (from 3848 , "contrary to" and 939 , "go") -- properly,
someone who steps over (walks contrary to) God's line. ...
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3845. parabaino -- to go by the side of, to go past
... Cognate: 3845 (from 3844 , "beside, contrary to" and , "go") -- properly, to transgress
in a willful (defiant) way, deliberately a known line, ie as a . See ...
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3844. para -- from beside, by the side of, by, beside
... by the side of, by, beside NASB Word Usage above (2), along (1), among (4), anyone's*
(1), aside* (1), before (4), beside (6), beyond (2), contrary (5), give (1 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2016. hephek -- the contrary, contrariness, perversity
... 2015, 2016. hephek. 2017 . the contrary, contrariness, perversity. Transliteration:
hephek Phonetic Spelling: (heh'-fek) Short Definition: different. ... contrary ...
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7147. qeri -- opposition, contrariness
... Word Origin from qarah Definition opposition, contrariness NASB Word Usage hostility
(7). contrary. From qarah; hostile encounter -- contrary. see HEBREW qarah. ...
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3399. yarat -- to be precipitate, to precipitate
... yarat. 3400 . to be precipitate, to precipitate. Transliteration: yarat Phonetic
Spelling: (yaw-rat') Short Definition: contrary. Word Origin a prim. ...
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199. ulam -- but, but indeed
... Apparently a variation of 'uwlay; however or on the contrary -- as for, but, howbeit,
in very deed, surely, truly, wherefore. see HEBREW 'uwlay. 198, 199. ...
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5674a. abar -- to pass over, through, or by, pass on
... circulated (2), circulating (1), come (2), come around (1), come over (3), comes
(3), continue (2), continued (13), continued through (1), contrary (2), cross ...
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2015. haphak -- to turn, overturn
... X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse,
retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way). ...
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5921. al -- upon, above, over
... 1), concerning (97), concerning* (5), confront (1), confront* (1), connection (1),
conquer* (1), consider* (3), considered* (2), contrary (1), corresponding (2 ...
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5619. saqal -- to stone, put to death by stoning
... A primitive root; properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation
or its contrary (as if a delapidation) -- (cast, gather out, throw) stone(-s ...
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Library

Whether vice is Contrary to Nature?
... EVIL HABITS, ie VICES AND SINS (QQ -89) Whether vice is contrary to nature?
Objection 1: It would seem that vice is not contrary to nature. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether vice is contrary to 2.htm

Whether Daring is Contrary to Fear?
... OF DARING (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether daring is contrary to fear? Objection
1: It would seem that daring is not contrary to fear. For ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether daring is contrary to.htm

Whether Despair is Contrary to Hope?
... OF THE IRASCIBLE PASSIONS, AND FIRST, OF HOPE AND DESPAIR (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether
despair is contrary to hope? ... x, 5). But fear is contrary to hope. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether despair is contrary to.htm

Whether vice is Contrary to virtue?
... EVIL HABITS, ie VICES AND SINS (QQ -89) Whether vice is contrary to virtue?
Objection 1: It would seem that vice is not contrary to virtue. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether vice is contrary to.htm

Whether Folly is Contrary to Wisdom?
... OF FOLLY WHICH IS OPPOSED TO WISDOM (THREE ARTICLES) Whether folly is contrary to
wisdom? Objection 1: It would seem that folly is not contrary to wisdom. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether folly is contrary to.htm

That it is not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature ...
... Chapter 8."That It is Not Contrary to Nature That, in an Object Whose Nature is
Known, There Should Be Discovered an Alteration of the Properties Which Have ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 8 that it is not.htm

What is Contrary to this Predestination Can Not, with Propriety...
... THESIS 14 What is contrary to this predestination can not, with propriety?
What is contrary to this predestination can not, with ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 3/thesis 14 what is contrary.htm

Detained by Contrary Winds
... Wesley Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his
Long Life; "How is the Tide Turned;" Last Entries Detained by Contrary Winds. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/detained by contrary winds.htm

Whether There is any Sorrow Contrary to the Pleasure of ...
... OF PAIN OR SORROW, IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether there is any sorrow
contrary to the pleasure of contemplation? Objection 1 ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there is any sorrow.htm

Whether Sorrow or Pain is Contrary to Pleasure?
... OF PAIN OR SORROW, IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether sorrow or pain is contrary
to pleasure? ... Objection 2: Further, one contrary does not denominate the other. ...
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Thesaurus

Contrary (77 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in
opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. 2. (a.) Opposed ...
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Reverse (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite
or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. ...
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Ill (137 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage,
happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. ...
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Unlawful (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Not lawful; contrary to law. Multi-Version
Concordance Unlawful (9 Occurrences). Matthew 12:2 But ...
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Opposition (22 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Contrariwise (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
2. (adv.) In a contrary order; conversely. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Contradict (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay;
to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn. ...
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Sevenfold (10 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I
will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins. (DBY RSV). ...
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Unjust (44 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled
by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge. ...
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Oppose (29 Occurrences)
... NIV). Acts 26:9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many
things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. (See NIV). ...
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Contrary (77 Occurrences)

Matthew 14:24
But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Matthew 27:24
So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, "I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it."
(WEY)

Mark 5:26
and had undergone many different treatments under a number of doctors and had spent all she had without receiving benefit but on the contrary growing worse,
(WEY)

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,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Luke 11:28
But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."
(WEB NAS)

Luke 13:3
I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you are not penitent you will all perish as they did.
(WEY)

Luke 13:5
I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not repent you will all perish just as they did."
(WEY)

Luke 14:10
On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence of all the other guests.
(WEY)

John 7:12
There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."
(See NAS)

John 8:49
"I am not possessed by a demon," replied Jesus. "On the contrary I honour my Father, and you dishonour me.
(WEY)

John 8:55
You do not know Him, but I know Him perfectly; and were I to deny my knowledge of Him, I should resemble you, and be a liar. On the contrary I do know Him, and I obey His commands.
(WEY)

Acts 15:11
On the contrary, we believe that it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we, as well as they, shall be saved."
(WEY)

Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Acts 18:13
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

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?"
(WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Acts 26:9
"I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Acts 27:4
Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Acts 28:17
After one complete day he invited the leading men among the Jews to meet him; and, when they were come together, he said to them, "As for me, brethren, although I had done nothing prejudicial to our people or contrary to the customs of our forefathers, I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the power of the Romans.
(WEY YLT)

Romans 1:26
This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,
(WEY DBY)

Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
(See NAS RSV)

Romans 6:13
and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
(WEY)

Romans 7:7
What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."
(WEY NAS)

Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
(See NIV)

Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
(See NAS)

Romans 10:21
But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
(WEB RSV)

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?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 12:20
On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing this you will be heaping burning coals upon his head.
(WEY NIV)

Romans 13:14
On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
(WEY)

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.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Corinthians 6:8
On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.
(WEY NAS)

1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 12:22
No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
(See RSV)

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.
(WEB DBY YLT NAS)

2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
(See NIV)

2 Corinthians 4:2
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
(See NIV)

2 Corinthians 6:4
On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
(See NIV)

Galatians 1:8
But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
(See NAS RSV)

Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
(See NAS RSV)

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
(WEB DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
(See NAS NIV)

Galatians 3:21
God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.
(See NAS)

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.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NIV)

Ephesians 2:19
You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.
(WEY)

Ephesians 4:32
On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.
(WEY)

Ephesians 5:29
For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
(WEY)

Colossians 2:14
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Thessalonians 2:7
On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
(WEY)

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;
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)

2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
(See NIV)

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;
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Titus 1:15
To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.
(WEY)

Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Hebrews 3:13
On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.
(WEY)

Hebrews 10:12
this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,
(WEY)

Hebrews 12:22
On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
(WEY)

1 Peter 3:9
not requiting evil with evil nor abuse with abuse, but, on the contrary, giving a blessing in return, because a blessing is what you have been called by God to inherit.
(WEY DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Peter 4:13
On the contrary, in the degree that you share in the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice, so that at the unveiling of His glory you may also rejoice with triumphant gladness.
(WEY)

Leviticus 10:1
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
(See NIV)

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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 26:23
"'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 26:24
then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 26:27
"'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

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,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

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;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 22:18
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
(See NAS)

Numbers 22:32
And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me:
(See JPS NAS)

Numbers 24:13
'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 30:18
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
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Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
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Psalms 18:26
With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
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Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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Ezekiel 16:34
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
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Ezekiel 22:3
You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
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