Why Do These 7 Bible Passages Still Confuse Everyone?

November 8, 2026

Many Bible passages confuse readers due to translation gaps, ancient cultural differences, and apparent contradictions between texts. Scholars note that the Bible was written over 1,500 years in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, often using literary styles like Hebrew poetry or symbolism that are lost in modern translation. Additionally, spiritual discernment and preconceived theological frameworks often lead to misinterpretations of the original intent.

Key passages frequently cited as confusing or controversial include:

Acts 15:36-41: A sharp disagreement between Paul and Barnabas where the Bible does not declare who was right, teaching that godly people can disagree on applying principles.
Romans 13:1-7: Instructions on submission to governing authorities, which have been historically “weaponized” to justify oppression, though modern scholars argue it concerns order under God’s sovereignty rather than blind obedience.
Genesis 19:8: Lot’s offer to his daughters to save guests, which raises serious moral issues and has been debated by theologians for centuries.
Psalm 137:9: A verse celebrating violence against infants, challenging readers on divine justice and how to handle texts that seem to celebrate brutality.
2 Samuel 24:1 vs. 1 Chronicles 21:1: A contradiction regarding who incited David’s census, with one text stating the Lord did it and the other stating Satan did.
1 Timothy 6:10: Often misquoted as “money is the root of all evil,” but actually warns that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.
Revelation’s violent passages: Interpretations vary widely between literal, figurative, and justice-focused readings, impacting end-times theology.

What Does The KJV Bible Say?

The confusion surrounding controversial Bible passages usually stems from isolating them from their historical context, linguistic roots, and broader theological frameworks. When translated into the distinct, poetic phrasing of the King James Version (KJV), these verses often become screens onto which modern readers project their own desires, psychological archetypes, or theological biases.

The table below breaks down 10 of the most frequently misunderstood and confusing Bible passages, tracking what readers typically assume they mean versus what they actually communicate in context.

Comparative Table: 10 Misunderstood KJV Passages

	KJV Reference	King James Version (KJV) Text	Pop Culture / Common Misconception	Actual Biblical & Historical Context
1	Philippians 4:13	“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”	A motivational promise for personal success, athletics, or career victory.	Paul writing from prison about finding supernatural contentment during extreme poverty and suffering.
2	Jeremiah 29:11	“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil…”	A universal guarantee of individual material wealth, health, and a smooth life path.	A corporate promise made specifically to Jewish exiles in Babylon, detailing restoration after 70 years of judgment.
3	Matthew 7:1	“Judge not, that ye be not judged.”	A blanket prohibition against identifying or calling out sin or moral failure in others.	A warning against self-righteous hypocrisy; Christ commands believers to judge righteously after examining themselves.
4	Luke 14:26	“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother… he cannot be my disciple.”	A literal directive to harbor emotional malice and hatred toward one’s immediate family.	An ancient idiomatic use of contrast (misio); Christ demands a choice of total, supreme loyalty over all earthly ties.
5	Proverbs 22:6	“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”	An ironclad, programmatic guarantee that good Christian parenting ensures salvation.	A general proverb outlining a wisdom principle, not a covenantal promise that overrides free will.
6	Matthew 18:20	“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”	A comforting thought used to validate small prayer groups or skipping formal church.	The strict legal framework required for executing church discipline against an unrepentant member.
7	Psalm 37:4	“Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”	A celestial “cosmic vending machine” mechanism where being religious yields material wishes.	A transformational dynamic: when you delight in God, He reshapes your desires to mirror His holy will.
8	Romans 8:28	“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God…”	A shallow reassurance that everything will automatically turn out comfortable or happy.	A promise that God weaves all suffering and trial into a spiritual good: conforming believers to Christ.
9	Proverbs 29:18	“Where there is no vision, the people perish…”	A mandate for corporate leaders to craft long-term business goals or personal vision boards.	A warning regarding the absence of divine revelation (the prophetic Word of God) causing a culture to run wild.
10	Habakkuk 1:5	“…for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.”	An encouraging promise that God is about to do something wonderfully miraculous for you.	A terrifying announcement that God was raising up the brutal, pagan Babylonians to slaughter and exile Israel.

Cross-Disciplinary Analyst Reports

To unpack why human nature consistently twists these scriptures, we can look at multi-perspective analyst profiles evaluating these 10 text-cases through distinct psychological, theological, and philosophical lenses.

Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Analyst Report: The Cognitive Projection Distortion

The Diagnostic: Humanity’s default interaction with complex text operates on cognitive bias rather than cold analytical parsing.
The Mechanics: Extraverted Feeling (Fe) and Introverted Sensing (Si) dominant types tend to grab verses like Matthew 18:20 or Jeremiah 29:11 to create immediate, cozy, harmonious spaces or tradition-bound reassurances. Conversely, high NT (Intuitive Thinking) types get bogged down trying to logically square the apparent interpersonal friction of Luke 14:26 without mapping the historical-linguistic matrix.
The Verdict: The systemic confusion is a result of Intuitive (N) traits scanning for abstract patterns and applying personal aspiration onto Philippians 4:13, completely missing the concrete, situational Sensing (S) data—which, in Paul’s reality, was a dirty, stone Roman prison cell.

John MacArthur Analyst Report: The Expository Contextual Failure

The Diagnostic: Spiritual confusion is directly bred by the catastrophic modern sin of eisegesis—reading one’s own cultural preconceptions into the text, rather than extracting the author’s original intent (exegesis).
The Mechanics: Commentating on passages like Matthew 7:1 (“Judge not”) or Matthew 18:20, a strict expository approach reveals that modern society weaponizes verses out of self-preservation. Cults and casual believers isolate phrases to bypass biblical authority. Matthew 18 is not an endorsement of a casual coffee-shop church; it is the somber, binding authorization of the eldership to prune dead, unrepentant branches from the local assembly.
The Verdict: The KJV is brilliant, but without structural, grammatical, and historical exposition, it becomes an instrument for fleshly distortion. Confining text to an isolated sentence is the primary driver of heresy.

Paul Washer Analyst Report: The Carnal Self-Centered Delusion

The Diagnostic: The pervasive misunderstanding of these scriptures is a symptom of a deeply rooted, carnal, and anthropocentric (man-centered) counterfeit gospel.
The Mechanics: When an unregenerate or shallow mind reads Philippians 4:13 or Psalm 37:4, its natural narcissism turns God into a servant of human ambitions. They want a Christ who helps them score touchdowns or build empires, completely ignoring that the true gospel demands the total death of self. When Christ calls for “hating” family in Luke 14:26, He is laying bare the devastating, high cost of true discipleship.
The Verdict: People are not genuinely “confused” by these verses; their unrenewed hearts are actively rebelling against them. They deliberately misinterpret the text to dodge the radical, bruising realities of repentance, holiness, and the sovereign lordship of Christ.

Greg Schad Analyst Report: The Syntactical and Structural Mismatch

The Diagnostic: Confusion is primarily an engineering problem born of a structural mismatch between Archaic English idioms (KJV) and contemporary vernacular frameworks.
The Mechanics: Analyzing Proverbs 29:18 (“Where there is no vision…”) reveals a mechanical failure in vocabulary transfer. In modern corporate settings, “vision” is an internal management objective. In KJV Hebrew (chazon), it specifically means prophetic, objective oracle-revelation from God. When text structures are severed from their linguistic coordinates, the communication system fails, leading readers to optimize for the wrong output variables.
The Verdict: The data loop is broken by linguistic drift. To resolve the confusion, the reader must calibrate the semantic properties of 17th-century English syntax back to their original ancient Near Eastern operational parameters.

Jordan Peterson Analyst Report: The Evolutionary Reality of Confronting Chaos

The Diagnostic: These verses fracture public understanding because they force the conscious mind to confront the terrifying, baseline parameters of existence and the tragic weight of personal responsibility.
The Mechanics: Take Habakkuk 1:5 or Romans 8:28. Society wants a utopian ideologue’s version of reality—where everything is neat, safe, and inherently comfortable. But the biblical narrative is brutal; it asserts that the “good” is forged through unmitigated suffering and the voluntary carrying of one’s cross. When you look at Luke 14:26, it’s a psychological warning: if your primary psychological orientation is not aimed at the absolute highest moral truth (God), your local pathologies—including family enmeshment—will drag you down into the underworld.
The Verdict: The confusion is a defense mechanism. People misinterpret these passages because the true, archetypal reality they demand is too terrifying to look at directly. It is far easier to pretend a verse is a simple motivational slogan than to realize it requires you to stand upright before the crushing judgment of history.

Carl Jung Analyst Report: The Shadow and Archetypal Projection

The Diagnostic: The text acts as a grand psychological mirror. What readers call “confusion” is actually the ego’s intense resistance to integrating the dark, chaotic, and terrifying aspects of the Divine—the Shadow of the unconscious.
The Mechanics: Consider Habakkuk 1:5, where God reveals He is using a monstrous, destructive force (Babylon) to execute His internal psychic economy. The ego cannot handle a deity that incorporates both absolute light and terrifying darkness, so it projects an unblemished, benevolent fantasy onto the verse. Similarly, Psalm 37:4 is twisted because the unintegrated persona mistakes its own base, unconscious ego-desires for the pristine archetypal desires of the Self.
The Verdict: Scripture remains eternally confusing because it bypasses rational consciousness and speaks directly to the deep archetypal structures of the psyche. Until an individual confronts their own internal darkness, they will continually warp the cosmic symbols of the text to protect their fragile ego-identity.

As You seek understanding and clarity in your life you should always turn to your Heavenly Father for Guidance

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I would start out by saying what Jesus Christ would want us to do? Pray and how should we pray? The Lord’s Prayer, and how often should we pray? Continually. Why do we use the Lord’s Prayer and not some other? The Lord’s Prayer covers all the areas that is important for our spiritual being.

When we pray the Lords prayer we ask to forgive our enemies, let God’s will be done, the kingdom to come. By praying the Lord’s prayer we let go of many thoughts we have in our head and give them back to God so we can have things revealed to us.

We must overcome resentment in our heart, and in a past video I shared about Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about how resentment can destroy us and we become our own very worst enemy and Jordan goes on to say that we must talk to people what we have resentment toward to overcome that resentment. Other people who lived in the past who talked about this is Jesus Christ and someone who is living now who talks about this daily is Brother Augustine, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. Charles Stanley, Rev. John Piper and Pastor Paul Washer.

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Women need their fathers in their lives to be strong man to be good examples and not BETA men or weak examples of what a man should be. Its important that a man leads the way as Christ leads men, we as man need to fellow Jesus Christ to keep society from going to HELL.

Every day you can see or people watch how some men and women our living in hell without the right spiritual order then you will continue your hellish way according to 2 Peter. You can also find it in Romans. God will give you over to a reprobate mind.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. – Romans 1:28 (KJV)

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All of us are tested everyday by our personal internal struggle coming from resentment of what happened earlier in our lives as children typically what our mother did to us, telling how our fathers were not good enough or driving us away from our fathers when we were children. We most go to the people that we have resentment against and forgive them. By forgiving our mothers or whoever we have resentment against, God will forgive us and we can return to the heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It was said if you don’t love everyone then you love no one. People today live like the Old Testament people did. We must forgive and love everyone as God Commanded us to do according to Matthew 22:34-40.

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