Contradictions and Paradoxes in Proverbs 3:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Proverbs 3:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Proverbs 3:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Proverbs, if you are kind and follow God's teachings, both God and people will be happy with you and you will succeed.

Proverbs 3:4: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. [good...: or, good success]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:5

Trusting in man, rather than God, brings a curse, contrasting with seeking favor and understanding from both God and man in Proverbs 3:4.

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 Galatians 1:10

Seeking to please men can disqualify one from being a servant of Christ, contradicting the notion of finding favor with both God and man in Proverbs 3:4.

Galatians 1:10: For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Contradiction with 1 John 2:15

Love for the world being against the love of the Father contradicts the idea of gaining favor in the sight of both God and man in Proverbs 3:4.

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 Luke 6:26

Woe to those praised by all men, as opposed to finding favor with God and man in Proverbs 3:4.

Luke 6:26: Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Contradiction with John 15:19

Being chosen out of the world by God results in the world's hatred, contradicting finding favor in the sight of all others as suggested in Proverbs 3:4.

John 15:19: If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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