Contradictions Catalog of John 16:20
John 16:20 contradicts following 30 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of John 16:20 for quick understanding.
John 16:20: Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 Chronicles 7:22 | And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. |
| 2. | Job 30:28 | I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. |
| 3. | Psalms 6:7 | Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. |
| 4. | Proverbs 14:13 | Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness. |
| 5. | Ecclesiastes 7:2 | [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart. |
| 6. | Ecclesiastes 7:3 | Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. [Sorrow: or, Anger] |
| 7. | Isaiah 22:4 | Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. [weep...: Heb. be bitter in weeping] |
| 8. | Isaiah 24:11 | [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. |
| 9. | Jeremiah 4:8 | For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. |
| 10. | Jeremiah 8:18 | [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. [in: Heb. upon] |
| 11. | Jeremiah 9:1 | Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! [Oh...: Heb. Who will give my head, etc] |
| 12. | Jeremiah 13:17 | But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. |
| 13. | Jeremiah 15:9 | She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. |
| 14. | Jeremiah 31:15 | Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not. |
| 15. | Lamentations 1:16 | For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. [relieve: Heb. bring back] |
| 16. | Lamentations 3:49 | Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
| 17. | Lamentations 5:15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 18. | Ezekiel 24:23 | And your tires [shall be] upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. |
| 19. | Daniel 10:2 | In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. [full...: Heb. weeks of days] |
| 20. | Amos 5:17 | And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. |
| 21. | Amos 8:3 | And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence. [shall be howlings: Heb. shall howl] [with...: Heb. be silent] |
| 22. | Amos 8:10 | And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day. |
| 23. | Zephaniah 3:18 | I will gather [them that are] sorrowful for the solemn assembly, [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of it [was] a burden. [reproach...: Heb. the burden upon it was reproach] |
| 24. | Zechariah 12:12 | And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; [every...: Heb. families, families] |
| 25. | Luke 1:58 | And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. |
| 26. | Luke 23:27 | And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. |
| 27. | 1 Corinthians 7:30 | And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; |
| 28. | Philippians 4:4 | Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice. |
| 29. | 1 Thessalonians 5:16 | Rejoice evermore. |
| 30. | James 4:9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. |
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