46 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, And The Gospel

I knew that so the truth: and how shall man be just with God?

And the men of the House of the Sun will say, Who shall be able to stand before Jehovah this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?

Shall a man be just above God? If a man shall be pure above him making him?

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

And the anger of Elihu will kindle, son of Barachel the Buzite, from the family of Ram: against Job was, his anger kindled, for his justifying his soul above God.

Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just?

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.

And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice.

Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast.

Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

If they shall sin against thee, (for no man which shall not sin) and thou wert angry with them, and gavest them before the face of the enemy, and they taking them captive carried them captive to a land afar off or near;

And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.

O Jehovah God of Israel, thou art just: for we remained an escaping as this day: behold us before thee in our guilts; for not to stand before thee for

All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.

To thee, O Jehovah, justice, and to us shame of face, as this day to the men of Judah, and to those dwelling in Jerusalem, and to all Israel being near and being far off, in all the lands where thou didst thrust them there in their transgression which they transgressed against thee.

As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

For I will take the appointment, I will judge uprightnesses The earth and all dwelling in it being melted: I made even its pillars. Silence. I said to the foolish, Ye shall not be foolish; and to the unjust, Ye shall not lift up the horn:

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.

For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

Jehovah made known his salvation: to the eyes of the nations he uncovered his justice.

I brought near my justice; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I gave salvation in Zion for Israel my beauty.

My justice is near; my salvation went forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and to mine arm shall they hope.

Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches: But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.

For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.

And from all which ye could not be justified by Moses' law, every one believing in him is justified.

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:

For we in spirit by faith expect the hope of justice.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God.

That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness.

And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.

For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh. And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Not of works, lest any one should boast.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ. But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith: