16 Bible Verses about Holier Than Thou
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They say, ‘Keep to yourself,
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.
For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
Don’t be excessively righteous, and don’t be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
There is no one holy like the Lord.
There is no one besides You!
And there is no rock like our God.
sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.
One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.
If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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