Contradictions Catalog of Matthew 5:12
Matthew 5:12 contradicts following 32 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Matthew 5:12 for quick understanding.
Matthew 5:12: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Numbers 11:10 | Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. |
| 2. | Esther 4:3 | And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. [many...: Heb. sackcloth and ashes were laid under many] |
| 3. | Job 3:1 | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| 4. | Job 6:5 | Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? [when he...: Heb. at grass?] |
| 5. | Psalms 38:6 | I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. [troubled: Heb. wried] |
| 6. | Psalms 42:3 | My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God? |
| 7. | Psalms 119:136 | Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. |
| 8. | Ecclesiastes 3:13 | And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God. |
| 9. | Ecclesiastes 6:6 | Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? |
| 10. | Isaiah 9:3 | Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil. [not: or, to him] |
| 11. | Isaiah 32:11 | Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins. |
| 12. | 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. |
| 13. | Jeremiah 22:10 | Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. |
| 14. | Lamentations 1:20 | Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death. |
| 15. | Daniel 11:35 | And [some] of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time of the end: because [it is] yet for a time appointed. [try them: or, try by them] |
| 16. | Amos 6:7 | Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. |
| 17. | Matthew 23:30 | And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. |
| 18. | Mark 10:30 | But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. |
| 19. | Luke 12:19 | And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. |
| 20. | Luke 15:32 | It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. |
| 21. | Luke 19:41 | And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, |
| 22. | Luke 23:27 | And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. |
| 23. | John 16:6 | But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. |
| 24. | Acts 20:37 | And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, |
| 25. | 1 Corinthians 15:32 | If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. [after...: or, to speak after the manner of men] |
| 26. | 2 Corinthians 1:5 | For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. |
| 27. | 2 Corinthians 6:10 | As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things. |
| 28. | Philippians 3:10 | That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; |
| 29. | Hebrews 11:35 | Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: |
| 30. | James 4:9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. |
| 31. | 1 Peter 1:4 | To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, [for you: or, for us] |
| 32. | Revelation 5:4 | And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. |
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