SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Passages on this topic · 246

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• Deuteronomy 9:4

  Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

• Deuteronomy 9:5

  Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Deuteronomy 9:6

  Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

• 1 Samuel 15:13

  Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:14

  Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

• 1 Samuel 15:16

  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

• 1 Samuel 15:17

  Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Samuel 15:20

  Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 15:23

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 1 Samuel 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Samuel 15:25

  Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:27

  As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

• 1 Samuel 15:30

  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

• 1 Samuel 15:31

  So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

• Job 6:13

  Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

• Job 11:4

  For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

• Job 11:5

  But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

• Job 11:6

  that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

• Job 12:2

  “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

• Job 13:3

  “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

• Job 13:13

  “Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

• Job 13:15

  Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

• Job 13:18

  See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

• Job 13:19

  Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

• Job 16:17

  Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

• Job 16:18

  “Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

• Job 18:2

  “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

• Job 18:3

  Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

• Job 18:4

  You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

• Job 21:27

  “Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

• Job 21:28

  For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

• Job 21:29

  Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

• Job 22:2

  “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

• Job 22:3

  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

• Job 32:1

  So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

• Job 32:2

  Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

• Job 33:8

  “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

• Job 33:9

  ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

• Job 35:2

  “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

• Job 35:7

  If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

• Job 35:8

  Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

• Psalms 10:5

  His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

• Psalms 10:6

  He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

• Proverbs 12:15

  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

• Proverbs 14:12

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Proverbs 16:2

  All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

• Proverbs 20:6

  Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

• Proverbs 21:2

  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

• Proverbs 25:14

  As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

• Proverbs 25:27

  It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

• Proverbs 26:12

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Proverbs 27:2

  Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

• Proverbs 27:21

  The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

• Proverbs 28:13

  He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

• Proverbs 28:26

  One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

• Proverbs 30:12

  There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

• Proverbs 30:13

  There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

• Isaiah 5:21

  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

• Isaiah 28:17

  I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

• Isaiah 28:20

  For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

• Isaiah 47:7

  You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

• Isaiah 50:11

  Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: You will lie down in sorrow.

• Isaiah 64:6

  For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

• Isaiah 65:3

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

• Isaiah 65:4

  who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

• Isaiah 65:5

  who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

• Jeremiah 2:13

  “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• Jeremiah 2:22

  For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 2:23

  “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

• Jeremiah 2:34

  Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

• Jeremiah 2:35

  “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

• Jeremiah 7:4

  Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

• Jeremiah 8:8

  “‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

• Jeremiah 17:5

  Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 49:4

  Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

• Jeremiah 49:16

  As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 33:24

  Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

• Ezekiel 33:25

  Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

• Ezekiel 33:26

  You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land?

• Hosea 12:8

  Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

• Amos 6:13

  you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

• Habakkuk 2:4

  Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

• Zephaniah 3:11

  In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

• Matthew 7:22

  Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

• Matthew 7:23

  Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

• Matthew 9:10

  As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

• Matthew 9:11

  When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

• Matthew 9:12

  When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

• Matthew 9:13

  But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• Matthew 16:6

  Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

• Matthew 19:16

  Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

• Matthew 19:17

  He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

• Matthew 19:18

  He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

• Matthew 19:19

  ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

• Matthew 19:20

  The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Matthew 19:22

  But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Matthew 22:12

  and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

• Matthew 22:13

  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

• Matthew 23:29

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

• Matthew 23:30

  and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 23:31

  Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

• Mark 2:16

  The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

• Mark 8:15

  He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

• Mark 10:17

  As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

• Mark 10:18

  Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one — God.

• Mark 10:19

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

• Mark 10:20

  He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”

• Mark 10:21

  Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

• Mark 10:22

  But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Luke 5:30

  Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Luke 7:36

  One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

• Luke 7:37

  Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

• Luke 7:38

  Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

• Luke 7:39

  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

• Luke 7:40

  Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”

• Luke 7:41

  “A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

• Luke 7:42

  When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

• Luke 7:43

  Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.” He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

• Luke 7:44

  Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

• Luke 7:45

  You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

• Luke 7:46

  You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

• Luke 7:47

  Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

• Luke 7:48

  He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

• Luke 7:49

  Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

• Luke 7:50

  He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

• Luke 10:25

  Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Luke 10:26

  He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

• Luke 10:27

  He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

• Luke 10:28

  He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

• Luke 10:29

  But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

• Luke 10:30

  Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

• Luke 10:31

  By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:32

  In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 10:36

  Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

• Luke 10:37

  He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

• Luke 11:33

  “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 11:34

  The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

• Luke 11:35

  Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

• Luke 11:36

  If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

• Luke 11:37

  Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

• Luke 11:38

  When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

• Luke 11:39

  The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

• Luke 11:40

  You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 11:44

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

• Luke 11:45

  One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

• Luke 11:46

  He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 11:48

  So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 11:49

  Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

• Luke 11:50

  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

• Luke 11:51

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

• Luke 11:53

  As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

• Luke 11:54

  lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

• Luke 15:2

  The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

• Luke 15:25

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Luke 15:26

  He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

• Luke 15:27

  He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

• Luke 15:28

  But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

• Luke 15:29

  But 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 15:30

  But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

• Luke 15:31

  “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

• Luke 15:32

  But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

• Luke 16:14

  The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

• Luke 16:15

  He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

• Luke 18:9

  He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 18:11

  The 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.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 18:14

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 18:18

  A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Luke 18:19

  Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one — God.

• Luke 18:20

  You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

• Luke 18:21

  He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

• Luke 18:22

  When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

• Luke 18:23

  But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

• John 8:33

  They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

• John 8:34

  Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

• John 8:35

  A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

• John 8:36

  If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

• John 8:37

  I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

• John 8:38

  I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

• John 8:39

  They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

• John 8:40

  But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

• John 8:41

  You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

• John 8:42

  Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

• John 8:43

  Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

• John 8:44

  You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

• John 8:45

  But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

• John 8:46

  Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

• John 8:47

  He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

• John 8:48

  Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

• John 8:49

  Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

• John 8:50

  But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

• John 8:51

  Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

• John 8:52

  Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

• John 8:53

  Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

• John 8:54

  Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

• John 8:55

  You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

• John 8:56

  Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

• John 8:57

  The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”

• John 8:58

  Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. ”

• John 8:59

  Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

• John 9:28

  They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

• John 9:29

  We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

• John 9:30

  The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

• John 9:31

  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

• John 9:32

  Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

• John 9:33

  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

• John 9:34

  They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

• John 9:39

  Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

• John 9:40

  Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

• John 9:41

  Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

• Romans 2:17

  Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

• Romans 2:18

  and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

• Romans 2:19

  and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

• Romans 2:20

  a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

• Romans 3:27

  Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

• Romans 10:3

  For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

• Romans 11:19

  You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

• Romans 11:20

  True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

• Romans 11:21

  for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

• 2 Corinthians 1:9

  Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

• 2 Corinthians 10:17

  But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:18

  For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

• Galatians 6:3

  For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

• Revelation 3:17

  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

• Revelation 3:18

  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.