ContradictionsReading order 424Bible context 10 min read
Has there ever been a just person?
Ecclesiastes denies the existence of a sinless just person, while other texts call people just; that difference does not by itself deny the same category.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Denying a sinless just person does not deny that people can be just while also sinning.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
No just person does good without ever sinning
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Ecclesiastes 7
Many people are described as just and treated accordingly
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter 2:7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Peter 2