Contradiction with Luke 14:26
This verse suggests that devotion to Jesus might require prioritization over familial and personal relationships, which could be seen as contradicting the notion of prioritizing love for God as the greatest commandment.
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 Matthew 10:37
This verse emphasizes the necessity of prioritizing Jesus over family, potentially conflicting with the idea of focusing solely on the love for God as the greatest commandment.
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 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
These verses suggest a form of detachment from worldly commitments that might seem at odds with the relational focus inferred in Matthew 22:38.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31: But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;