TOPICAL BIBLE
Self-Righteousness
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Numbers 16:3and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?”Deuteronomy 9:4Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.Deuteronomy 9:5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.Deuteronomy 9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.1 Samuel 15:13Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”1 Samuel 15:14Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”1 Samuel 15:15Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”1 Samuel 15:16Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”1 Samuel 15:17Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;1 Samuel 15:18and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’1 Samuel 15:19Why then didn’t you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?”1 Samuel 15:20Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.1 Samuel 15:21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”1 Samuel 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.”1 Samuel 15:24Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.1 Samuel 15:25Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”1 Samuel 15:26Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”1 Samuel 15:27As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.1 Samuel 15:28Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.1 Samuel 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”1 Samuel 15:30Then he said, “I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”1 Samuel 15:31So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.Job 6:13Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?Job 11:4For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,Job 11:6that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.Job 12:2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.Job 13:13“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.Job 13:18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.Job 13:19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.Job 16:18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.Job 18:3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?Job 18:4You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.Job 21:28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’Job 21:29Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.Job 33:8“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,Job 33:9‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.Job 35:2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?Job 35:8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.Psalm 10:5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.Psalm 10:6He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.Proverbs 20:6Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.Proverbs 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
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