This page is from the site's earlier list of apparent contradictions. For answers, see Difficult Passages.

Poor and Contrite vs. Rejoice Evermore

Isaiah 66:2 - For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 - Rejoice evermore.

Isaiah 66:2 says that the Lord will look to the man "that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word", but Paul tells us in 1 Thess 5:16 to "Rejoice evermore". Is this a contradiction?