"Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?" --- Job 13:7.
"Thy word is truth." --- John 17:17.
When Moses saw an Egyptian and an Israelite striving together, he killed the Egyptian, and saved the Israelite. Exodus 2:12. But when he saw two Israeltes striving together, he laboured to reconcile them, saying, "Ye are brethren, why do ye strive?" So when we read, or see, the Apocryphal books, or Heathen story, or Popish traditions, contradicting the Scriptures; as, for instance, Jacob curseth the wrath and anger of Simeon and Levi for murdering the Shecemites, Genesis 49:7. and Judith blessed God for killing them, Judith 9; --- here, and in such like places, let us kill the Egyptian, but save the Israelite; set a value on the Scriptures, but slight the Apocrypha.
But when we meet with any appearance of seeming contradiction in the canon of Scripture, as where it is said, "God did tempt Abraham," Genesis 21:1. and God "God tempteth no man," James 1:13; --- here now, and in other places, we must be reconcilers, and distinguish between a temptation of trial, which is from God, and a temptation of seducement, which is by the devil; and these two seemingly different friends will appear to be brethren, and agree well.
Though various Scriptures seem to clash
And leave the mind in doubt,
Yet if you read them well with prayer,
You'll find their meaning out.