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Example sentences for "disobedient"

Lexicographically close words:
dismounted; dismounting; dismounts; disna; disobedience; disobey; disobeyed; disobeying; disobeys; disoblige
  1. They experienced a new motion of their flesh, which had become disobedient to them, in strict retribution of their own disobedience to God.

  2. Sir 30:12 Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

  3. Ay, the fault is mine; for I believe that rogue won't marry, for fear of begetting such another disobedient son as his father did.

  4. Finally he told my master that I was so disobedient that the rest of the slaves were affected by my conduct, and that I would ruin all the slaves on the plantation unless severe means were used to conquer me.

  5. Wilson received me as kindly as his nature would permit, and treated me as he did the other slaves and as if I had never been disobedient to him and ran away.

  6. Throughout, the voice was that of a grieved and angry elder talking to a wicked and disobedient child.

  7. Not that there had been any quarrel between the father and the son; nor indeed that George was aware that he had been in the least disobedient to his parent.

  8. I blamed and condemned myself for want of submission to the Lord's will; but still the language of my mutinous and disobedient heart was, "Give me the blessing, or else I die.

  9. But, O my Lord, one look from thee Subdues the disobedient will; Drives doubt and discontent away, And thy rebellious worm is still.

  10. John was sent to effect repentance, that change of mind and heart by which the disobedient to the commands of God should be brought to possess and exercise the moral and religious discernment which dwells only in the spirits of the righteous.

  11. And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

  12. His bare word is sovereign, and secures outward obedience, though from an unsubdued and disobedient will.

  13. To turn 'the disobedient to the wisdom of the just' is practically the same change, only regarded from another point of view.

  14. The rider must never allow herself, however disobedient her mount may be, to "job" his mouth with the reins, or to use them at any time as a means of punishment.

  15. His faith was first tried by the command to build the ark, though for one hundred and twenty years all seemed secure, without any token of judgment; and the disobedient refused to listen to his preaching.

  16. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

  17. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

  18. Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful.

  19. That was his Honour's remarks about the petitioners, calling them disobedient and unfaithful.

  20. The Raad might just as well give away the independence of the country as give all these new-comers, these disobedient persons, the franchise.

  21. The oblations of the disobedient are vain, Isa.

  22. To believe that holiness and obedience is the best way, will never save the disobedient and unholy.

  23. All the hope that his malice hath of undoing you for ever, consisteth in his hope to make you disobedient to God.

  24. Else you will but do as the ungodly and disobedient in their prayers, who offer to God the "sacrifice of fools, and consider not that they do evil," Eccl.

  25. If I preach not when I am forbidden, I shall be accused as forsaking the calling I undertook, and obeying man against God: if I do preach, I shall be accounted disobedient and seditious.

  26. The long-suffering of God did wait on the disobedient in the days of Noah," 1 Pet.

  27. The story of mediƦval France is the story of the efforts of serf and burgess to win their economic freedom[42] and of her kings to tame the insolence of disobedient vassals and to make their shadowy kingship a real thing.

  28. In recounting that experience he could say, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

  29. He could say afterward, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

  30. Afterwards, when referring to this wonderful experience, he says: "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

  31. How many since Saul's day have sought to cover a disobedient spirit with the plausible mantle of "sacrifice unto the Lord.

  32. Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here 20 And beg your pardon.

  33. Of disobedient opposition") only two regular accents occur, but we have a metrical accent on the first syllable of disobedient, and on the first and the last syllables of opposition, which word has metrically five syllables.

  34. This we ask in the name of thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, who died that sinners might be redeemed by believing on his name; even sinners who, like this disobedient handmaid, were born in a land of heathens.

  35. His covenants of old stood true and faithful, however disobedient and unfaithful men might be; as it is written: "I have sworn once for all by my holiness, that I will not fail David.

  36. It would increase their shame and confusion when they found out what sort of a Lord He was against whom they had been rebellious; long-suffering and of tender mercy, returning good for evil to His disobedient children.

  37. These are the very things which bring down God's wrath on His disobedient children.

  38. I knew a disobedient boy, once, who came to the gallows; and I 've known several others who made very bad men.

  39. The book is designed to exhibit some of the bad consequences of acquiring a wayward and lawless spirit, and of falling into indolent, untruthful, and disobedient habits.

  40. There was another Saul, who could say, 'I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.

  41. The father is willing to die for the disobedient child.

  42. It being very fit and necessary to be had in all Families for a Warning to Disobedient Children.

  43. Bloody Tragedy, The, or a Dreadful Warning to Disobedient Children.

  44. Also you have a Funeral Sermon on the Woman who brought it forth, a very wicked Liver, and disobedient to her Parents, and one that was mightily given to Wishing, Cursing and Swearing.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disobedient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.