Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is
7 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
but External
- Matthew 23:25–28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. …
- Luke 11:39–44 Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. …
but Partial
- Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
- Luke 11:44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
Ineffectual for Salvation
- Job 9:30–31 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, …
- Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
No Better than Filthy Rags
- Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Unprofitable
- Isaiah 57:12 I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
Related topics
Self-RighteousnessTeachersSatire of Jesus Against Hypocrites
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.