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Self-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 16:3
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 9:4–6
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness. / It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. / Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Samuel 2:9
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 6:13
Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 11:4–6
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’ / But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, / and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 13:3, 13, 15, 18, 19
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. / Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may. / Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 16:17, 18
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. / O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 18:2–4
“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk. / Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight? / You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 21:27–29
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. / For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’ / Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 22:2, 3
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? / Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 32:1, 2
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. / This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 33:8, 9
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words: / ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 35:2, 7, 8
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ / If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? / Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 10:5, 6
He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes. / He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 16:2
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:6
Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 21:2
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 25:14, 27
Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given. / It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 27:2, 21
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips. / A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:13, 26
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. / He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 30:12, 13
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth. / There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 28:17, 20
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place. / Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 47:7
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 50:11
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 64:6
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 65:3–5
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick, / sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls. / They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 2:13, 22, 23, 34, 35
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. / “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 49:4, 16
Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’ / The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 33:24–26
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’ / Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? / You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 6:13
you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Habakkuk 2:4
Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 3:11
On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 7:22, 23
Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ / Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 9:10–13
Later, as Jesus was dining at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples. / When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” / On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 16:6
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 19:16–22
Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” / “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” / “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 22:12, 13
‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless. / Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 23:29–31
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. / And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ / So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 2:16
When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 8:15
“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 10:17–22
As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” / “Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone. / You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 5:30
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 7:36–50
Then one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. / When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume. / As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 10:25–37
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” / “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?” / He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 15:2, 25–32
So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” / Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing. / But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 16:14, 15
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus. / So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 18:9–14, 18–23
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: / “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. / The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning John 9:34, 39–41
They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out. / Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.” / “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 2:17–20
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; / if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; / if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 3:27
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 10:3
Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 11:19–21
You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” / That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. / For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 10:17, 18
Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” / For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 6:3
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Open passageSelf-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 3:17, 18
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. / I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
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