Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
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Luke 17:10
"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, 'We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.'"
Luke 18:9
Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.
Matthew 20:12
"'Those last men,' they said, 'have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.'
Romans 3:20
For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.
Romans 7:9
Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Romans 10:3
For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:4
although I myself might have confidence in outward rites. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I;
1 John 1:8
If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Revelation 3:17
For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.
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Luke 15:7
"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.
Luke 19:21
"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'
Revelation 2:17
He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it.
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Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"
Luke 18:21
"All of these," he replied, "I have kept from my youth up."