31 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, Nature Of

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

And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcision done the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

All the ways of man are clean in his eyes, and Jehovah tried the spirits.

Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these. And thou wilt say, Because I was innocent his anger turned back from me. Behold me judging thee for thy saying, I sinned not

Thou shalt not say in thy heart in Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out from before thee, saying, For my justice Jehovah brought me forth to possess this land; and for the injustice of these nations Jehovah dispossessed them from before thee.

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him. If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:

A generation pure in its eyes, and not washed from its finding.

The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those. Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel.

And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God.

But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ. Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doing which thou didst transgress against me: for then will I remove from the midst of thee those exulting in thy pride, and thou shalt no more add to be elevated in my holy mountain.

For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.

Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace.

And they will gather together against Moses, and against Aaron, and they will say to them, Much to you for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah in the midst of them: and wherefore shall be lifted up over the gathering of Jehovah?

And Samuel will come to Saul: and Saul will say to him, Blessed thou of Jehovah: I set up the word of Jehovah. And Samuel will say, And what the voice of sheep in mine ear, and the voice of the oxen which I hear? And Saul will say, From the Amalekites they brought them; which the people had pity upon the good of the sheep and of the oxen in order to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God; and the rest we exterminated.read more.
And Samuel will say to Saul, Desist, and I will announce to thee what Jehovah spake to me by night. And they will say to him, Speak. And Samuel will say, Wert thou not little in thine eyes, thou the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah will anoint thee for king over Israel? And Jehovah will send thee in the way, and he will say, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners Amalek, and fight against him even till ye consumed them. And wherefore didst thou not hear to the voice of Jehovah, and wilt clothe thyself with the spoil, and thou wilt do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah. And Saul will say to Samuel, That I heard to the voice of Jehovah, and I will go in the way which Jehovah sent me, and I will bring Agag king of Amalek, and I utterly destroyed Amalek. And the people will take from the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief devoted to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

His ways will be in pain in all time; thy judgments high from before him: all his enemies he will puff at them.

And the Pharisees heard all these things, being avaricious: and they derided him.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.read more.
I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess. 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.

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind. And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him, We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked; I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.