Contradiction with Proverbs 11:1
It promotes honest scales and balances, implying fairness rather than fixed valuation.
Proverbs 11:1: A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight. [A false...: Heb. Balances of deceit] [just...: Heb. perfect stone]
Contradiction with Deuteronomy 25:15
Advocates for having a perfect and just weight, possibly contrasting with set temple value.
Deuteronomy 25:15: [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Contradiction with Matthew 6:19-20
Encourages storing treasures in heaven rather than assigning earthly value to them.
Matthew 6:19-20: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Contradiction with Acts 4:32-35
Early Christians shared all possessions, in contrast to fixing a value on them.
Acts 4:32-35: And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Contradiction with Luke 12:15
Warns against covetousness and equates one's life not with possessions, countering fixed value concepts.
Luke 12:15: And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.