Sentence examples for contrary to the command from inspiring English sources
"Try your Teachers," she says, and do not "bow to mens wills and worships contrary to the command of Christ Jesus" (Fell 1655, 1; 1660b, 3).
"Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, big or little, contrary to the command of the Lord my God" (Numbers 22 18).
He argued that the property being wrong is identical to the property being contrary to the commands of (a loving) God because the property being contrary to the commands of (a loving) God best fills the role assigned by the concept of wrongness (Adams 1979a, pp. 133 142; see also Adams 1999, pp. 252 258).
She does point out, however, that "to use Violence and Cruelty, is absolutely contrary to the Doctrine and Command of Christ" (Fell 1667b, 45).
The bishops in attendance at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 recognized that nothing could be done in the Church contrary to the emperor's will and command; while, on his side, the emperor, in the case of the Patriarch Anthimus, reinforced the ban of the Church with temporal proscription.
Contrary to the orthodox view, they interpreted the Qurʾānic command about "enjoining good and forbidding evil" to mean the vindication of truth through the sword.
That is directly contrary to the positions of the NRA's high command.
Contrary to the programmer that can exchange both Read and Write commands, the home monitoring device can exchange the Read command only with IMD.
While we must always be subject to the office of the magistrate, we are not to be subject to the man in that office who commands that which is contrary to the bible.
But there is an important caveat: "When any office commands that which is contrary to the Word of God, those who hold that office abrogate their authority and they are not to be obeyed.
