Contradiction with Proverbs 3:5
This verse advises to trust in the Lord with all your heart and not rely on your own understanding, while Exodus 15:2 emphasizes the Lord as strength and a personal savior, suggesting a reliance on understanding God as a source of personal power and salvation.
Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:11
Discusses the unpredictability of life and how outcomes are not always according to strength or wisdom, while Exodus 15:2 attributes strength and victory to the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 9:11: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:5
Declares cursed is the man who trusts in man, while Exodus 15:2 is about personal strength and salvation found in the Lord, emphasizing an individual's relationship with God.
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 Matthew 7:21-23
Emphasizes that not everyone who acknowledges the Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, as opposed to Exodus 15:2, which praises God as a personal savior.
Matthew 7:21-23: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Contradiction with James 4:13-15
Advises that one should not say they will do something tomorrow without acknowledging the Lord's will, whereas Exodus 15:2 celebrates what the Lord has done for the individual’s strength and salvation.
James 4:13-15: Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: