Contradiction with Proverbs 3:5
Trusting in the Lord with all your heart contrasts with relying on personal decisions, while Acts 11:21 indicates reliance on God’s hand guiding events.
Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:5
Cursed is the man that trusts in man contradicts the truth that the hand of the Lord is with people, bringing about successful outcomes.
Jeremiah 17:5: Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 2:4-5
Paul emphasizes faith not in man’s wisdom but in God’s power, differing from Acts 11:21 where belief is linked directly with the presence of God’s hand.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5: And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: [enticing: or, persuasible]
Contradiction with Ezekiel 33:11
God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, which seems contrary to a verse discussing successes of a different kind with the Lord’s hand being with them.
Ezekiel 33:11: Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Contradiction with Numbers 14:8-9
If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land, contradicts Acts 11:21’s implication of success as the Lord’s hand was with them, rather than guarantee based on divine delight.
Numbers 14:8-9: If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.