Matthew 19:20

The young man claims he has kept all these commands yet senses he still lacks something. His confidence and his unease together reveal his real spiritual condition.

Cross-references · 10

• Gal 3:24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Mark 10:20–21He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
• Phil 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• John 8:7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
• Luke 18:21–22He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”
• Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
• Luke 15:7I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• Rom 3:19–23Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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