45 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, And The Gospel

Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up from us?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Then the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled. His anger was kindled against Job because he justified himself rather than God.

If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.

knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no fles

But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith.

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you, not from works, so that not any man may boast.

he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near,

For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness, for none can stand before thee because of this.

They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

O LORD, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where tho

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?

When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly; [when] the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah. I said to the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly, and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn.

Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness abounds more than of the scholars and Pharisees, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

I bring near my righteousness. It shall not be far off. And my salvation shall not tarry, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples. The isles shall wait for me, and on my arm they shall trust.

Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the Law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For we, in a Spirit of faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,

But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man. I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God.

so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh. But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

not from works, so that not any man may boast.

But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain C and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--