Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 119:40

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 119:40 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 119:40. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the Psalmist, this means the writer loves God's rules and wants to live by them. They are asking God to help them be good and live the right way.

Psalms 119:40: Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Contradiction with Romans 3:10

This verse states that no one is righteous, contradicting the idea of successfully keeping God's precepts.

Romans 3:10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:20

It claims there is not a just man on earth that does good and does not sin, which contradicts the psalmist’s hope to keep God's commands.

Ecclesiastes 7:20: For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:9

Describes the human heart as deceitful and wicked, opposing the notion of living fully according to God's rules.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Contradiction with Isaiah 64:6

Asserts that all our righteous acts are like filthy rags, contradicting the pursuit of living by God’s precepts in righteousness.

Isaiah 64:6: But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Contradiction with Galatians 3:10

Declares that those who depend on following the law are under a curse, opposing the longing for divine statutes.

Galatians 3:10: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
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