Contradiction with Matthew 10:37
This verse contradicts Joshua 23:11 by prioritizing love for Jesus over familial love, suggesting a hierarchy in affections that could conflict with the directive to "take good heed...that ye love the Lord your God."
Matthew 10:37: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Contradiction with Luke 14:26
This verse emphasizes disowning family and even one's life for the sake of following Jesus, which contrasts with the singular focus on loving God mentioned in Joshua 23:11.
Luke 14:26: If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Contradiction with James 4:4
This verse states that friendship with the world is enmity against God, which can contradict the concept of love being only directed towards God in Joshua 23:11.
James 4:4: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Contradiction with 1 John 2:15
Calls for not loving the world or things in it, suggesting an exclusive type of love that can be seen as conflicting with the more inclusive love towards God described in Joshua 23:11.
1 John 2:15: Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Contradiction with Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters, suggesting a division of love and devotion that could contradict the singular command to love God in Joshua 23:11.
Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.