Contradictions and Paradoxes in Jeremiah 5:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Jeremiah 5:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Jeremiah 5:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Jeremiah, God is saying to look all over the city to find just one person who does what is right and seeks the truth. If someone can find even one good person, God will forgive the whole city.

Jeremiah 5:1: Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Contradiction with Genesis 18:32

This verse shows God willing to spare Sodom if ten righteous are found, while Jeremiah 5:1 suggests not even one righteous can be found in Jerusalem.

Genesis 18:32: And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:9

This verse implies there is a remnant of righteous people, contrasting Jeremiah 5:1's assertion that none can be found.

Isaiah 1:9: Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Contradiction with Ezekiel 22:30

God seeks someone to stand in the gap to prevent destruction, unlike Jeremiah 5:1, which indicates an inability to find even one righteous person.

Ezekiel 22:30: And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
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