Luke 15:29
And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.
Matthew 20:12
and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'
Luke 15:7
I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.
Luke 17:10
So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "
Luke 18:9
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
Luke 18:11-12
The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.
Luke 18:20-21
You know the commandments, 'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.' "
Luke 19:21
for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'
Romans 3:20
For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.
Romans 3:27
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith.
Romans 7:9
I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;
Romans 10:3
For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.
Philippians 3:4-6
though I at least am entitled to rely on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on his physical advantages, still more can I!
1 John 1:8-10
If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.
Revelation 2:17
Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,