Luke 15:29
He spoke to his father in anger. All these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have never disobeyed you. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
1 Samuel 15:13-14
Samuel went up to Saul. Saul said: Jehovah bless you, Samuel! I have obeyed Jehovah's command.
Isaiah 58:2-3
They seek me day by day. They delight to know my ways like a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask me for justice and delight. They are pleased that God is near.
Isaiah 65:5
They say: 'Keep away! Do not come near me, for I am too sacred for you! Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.'
Zechariah 7:3
Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
Malachi 1:12-13
You profane it by saying: 'The table of Jehovah is polluted and the fruit and food on it is contemptible.'
Malachi 3:14
You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
Matthew 20:12
They said: 'The last ones have done only one hour's work. You have made them equal to us. We have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.'
Luke 15:7
It is the same. I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.
Luke 17:10
The same applies to you. When you have done all you have been told to do, you say, we are unworthy servants. We have done what we ought to have done.
Luke 18:9
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
Luke 18:11-12
The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Luke 18:20-21
You know the commandments, do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, and do not bear false witness. Honor your father and mother.
Luke 19:21
I feared you because you are an austere man. You take up what you do not lay down and you reap that which you did not sow.
Romans 3:20
No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.
Romans 3:27
Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 10:3
They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:4-6
I might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I have more!
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Revelation 2:17
He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations! To those who overcome in victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
Revelation 3:17
You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.