31 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, Nature Of

They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: Who is my neighbor?

He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:

I might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I have more! I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Who can say: I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.

All the ways of a man are pure (clean) in his own eyes. But Jehovah weighs the motives.

You have bloodstains from innocent poor people on your clothes. You did not kill them for breaking in to your home. After all this you say: 'I am innocent. God will turn his anger from me. For I have not sinned.'

When Jehovah your God expels these people right before your very eyes, do not say to yourselves: 'Jehovah brought us here to possess this land because we live right (are righteous).' This is not the case. It is because these nations are so wicked that Jehovah is forcing them out of your way.

Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In your arrogance you say, 'I am a god (strong deity). I sit on God's throne in the sea.' But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes 2:4)

This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live (practice) the truth.

There is a generation pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.

The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone. You blind guides! You strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others: Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 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.

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than you.

Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day. They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

At that time you will no longer be ashamed of your transgression against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant. You will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.

It is not he that commends himself that is approved. It is the one whom Jehovah commends. (Proverbs 29:26)

You who seek to be righteous by Law are separated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.

They came together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said: You have gone far enough! Everyone in the whole congregation is holy. Jehovah is among them. Why do you set yourselves above Jehovah's assembly?

Samuel went up to Saul. Saul said: Jehovah bless you, Samuel! I have obeyed Jehovah's command. Samuel asked: Why do I hear the sound of cows and sheep? Saul answered: The army brought them from the Amalekites. They spared the best sheep and cows to sacrifice to Jehovah your God. But the rest they claimed for God and destroyed them.read more.
Be quiet, Samuel told Saul, Let me tell you what Jehovah told me last night. Speak, Saul replied. Samuel said to Saul: You are little in your own eyes. Even though you are a leader of all of the tribes of Israel that Jehovah anointed king over Israel. Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead. Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you pounce on the plunder? Why did you do evil in the sight of Jehovah? Then Saul said to Samuel: I did obey the voice of Jehovah. I went on the mission Jehovah sent me. I brought back Agag the king of Amalek. I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. The people took from the plunder of the flock the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.

He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.

Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others: Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 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.read more.
I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!

Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind. Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind? Jesus replied: If you were blind you would have no sin. But you say we see so your sin remains.

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. I counsel you to buy gold from me, gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed. In this way the shame of your nakedness will not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.