Contradictions Catalog of James 2:21
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James 2:21: Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Genesis 22:3 | And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. |
| 2. | Genesis 22:5 | And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. |
| 3. | 2 Chronicles 20:7 | [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? [who: Heb. thou] |
| 4. | John 8:39 | They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. |
| 5. | Romans 3:28 | Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
| 6. | Romans 4:2 | For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God. |
| 7. | Romans 4:13 | For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. |
| 8. | Galatians 2:16 | Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. |
| 9. | Hebrews 11:12 | Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. |
| 10. | Hebrews 11:17 | By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son], |
| 11. | 1 John 3:12 | Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. |
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