ContradictionsReading order 454Bible context 2 min read
Should you serve God alone?
Exclusive language about divine service and mastery sits beside commands requiring extensive obedience to human authorities.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Exclusive worship and religious mastery differ from the expressly earthly service required elsewhere.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
God alone receives service and Christ alone is master
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Matthew 4:10
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 4
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Matthew 23:10
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 23