Luke 15:29
But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
1 Samuel 15:13-14
When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh."
Isaiah 58:2-3
Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.
Isaiah 65:5
{who say}, "{Keep to yourself}! You must not come near me, for I am [too] holy for you!" These [are] a smoke in my {nostrils}, a fire burning all day.
Zechariah 7:3
saying to the {priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts} and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?"
Malachi 1:12-13
"But you [are] profaning it by saying the table of the Lord [is] defiled, and its fruit--its food--is despised!
Malachi 3:14
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Matthew 20:12
saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'
Luke 15:7
I tell you that in the [same] way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.
Luke 17:10
Thus you also, when you have done all the {things you were ordered to do}, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done what we were obligated to do.'"
Luke 18:9
And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on {everyone else}:
Luke 18:11-12
The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!
Luke 18:20-21
You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"
Luke 19:21
For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man--you withdraw what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow!'
Romans 3:20
For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:27
Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 7:9
And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life
Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:4-6
although I [could] have confidence even in the flesh.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Revelation 2:17
The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give to him [some] of the hidden manna, and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, that no one knows except the one who receives [it].'
Revelation 3:17
Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,