Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Peter 2:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Peter 2:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Peter 2:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Peter, a good man lived with bad people and saw and heard all the wrong things they did every day, which made him very sad and upset.

2 Peter 2:8: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds;)

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:9

The verse implies that the human heart is deceitful and wicked, contradicting the depiction of a just and righteous soul being vexed in 2 Peter 2:8.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Contradiction with Romans 3:10

This verse states that there is none righteous, contradicting the notion of a just and righteous individual being referenced in 2 Peter 2:8.

Romans 3:10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:20

It suggests there is not a just person upon earth who does good and does not sin, conflicting with the idea presented in 2 Peter 2:8.

Ecclesiastes 7:20: For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Contradiction with Psalm 14:3

This verse claims all have turned aside and none do good, contradicting the concept of a just and righteous soul in 2 Peter 2:8.

Psalm 14:3: They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one. [filthy: Heb. stinking]

Contradiction with Isaiah 64:6

States that all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, which contrasts with the notion of a just and righteous soul mentioned in 2 Peter 2:8.

Isaiah 64:6: But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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