Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is too short {to stretch out on}, and the covering is [too] narrow when wrapping oneself.
Isaiah 57:12-13
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.
Isaiah 59:5-6
they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched [as] a serpent.
Isaiah 64:6
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
Isaiah 66:3-6
The one who slaughters bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck [of] a dog. The one who offers an offering, [the] blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.
Jeremiah 7:8-10
Look, you [are] relying for yourselves on {deceitful words} without benefiting.
Romans 9:30-32
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.