Luke 15:29
but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.
Matthew 20:12
'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'
Luke 15:7
So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.
Luke 17:10
Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "
Luke 18:9
He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.
Luke 18:11-12
The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.
Luke 18:20-21
You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."
Luke 19:21
for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man ??picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'
Romans 3:20
for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.
Romans 3:27
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.
Romans 7:9
I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;
Romans 10:3
They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.
Philippians 3:4-6
Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;
Revelation 2:17
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'
Revelation 3:17
You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' ??not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.