Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Bible References

God's righteousness

Romans 1:17
For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."
Psalm 71:15
My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long}, though I do not know [the full] sum [of them].
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for [the] heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.
Isaiah 56:1
Thus says Yahweh: "Observe justice and do righteousness, for my salvation [is] close to coming, and my justice to being revealed.
Jeremiah 23:5
"Look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign [as] king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and {for your holy city}, to put an end to the transgression and to seal [up] sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring [in] everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint {the most holy place}.
John 16:9
concerning sin, because they do not believe in me,
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.
2 Peter 1:1
Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

To establish

Romans 9:31
But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.
Isaiah 57:12
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.
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.
Luke 10:29
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.
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}:
Galatians 5:3
And again I testify to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is under obligation to keep the whole law.
Philippians 3:9
and may be found in him, not having my righteousness [which is] from the law, but [which is] through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith,
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,

Submitted

Leviticus 26:41
I myself also went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies--or [if] then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt,
Nehemiah 9:33
You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.
Job 33:27
"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me.
Lamentations 3:22
The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.
Daniel 9:6
We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors and to all the people of the land.
Luke 15:17
"But [when he] came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have an abundance {of food}, and I am dying here from hunger!

General references

Genesis 3:12
And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe [and] do all [of] this commandment {before} Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'
Judges 17:13
And Micah said, "Now I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest."
Job 9:30
If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
Isaiah 57:12
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.
Luke 18:21
And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth."