TOPICAL BIBLE
Self-Righteousness
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Proverbs 26:12Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!Proverbs 27:2Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.Proverbs 27:21A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.Proverbs 28:13Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.Proverbs 28:26Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.Proverbs 30:13A generation—how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.Isaiah 5:21Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!Isaiah 28:17And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.Isaiah 28:20For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one’s self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one’s self up in.Isaiah 47:7And thou sayest, ‘To the age I am mistress,’ While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.Isaiah 50:11Lo, all ye kindling a fire, girding on sparks, Walk ye in the light of your fire, And in the sparks ye have caused to burn, From my hand hath this been to you, In grief ye lie down!Isaiah 64:6And we are as unclean—all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.Isaiah 65:3The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:Isaiah 65:4Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things—their vessels.Isaiah 65:5Who are saying, ‘Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.’ These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.Jeremiah 2:13For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells—broken wells, That contain not the waters.Jeremiah 2:22But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.Jeremiah 2:23How sayest thou, ‘I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?’ See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,Jeremiah 2:34Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.Jeremiah 2:35And thou sayest, ‘Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?’ Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, ‘I have not sinned.’Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are they!Jeremiah 8:8How do ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.Jeremiah 17:5Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.Jeremiah 49:4What—dost thou boast thyself in valleys? Flowed hath thy valley, O backsliding daughter, Who is trusting in her treasures: Who doth come in unto me?Jeremiah 49:16Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.Hosea 12:8And Ephraim saith: ‘Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours—they find not against me iniquity that is sin.’Amos 6:13O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, ‘Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?’Habakkuk 2:4Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.Zephaniah 3:11In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.Matthew 7:22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?Matthew 7:23and then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples,Matthew 9:11and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, ‘Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?’Matthew 9:12And Jesus having heard, said to them, ‘They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;Matthew 9:13but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.’Matthew 16:6and Jesus said to them, ‘Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;’Matthew 19:16And lo, one having come near, said to him, ‘Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?’Matthew 19:17And he said to him, ‘Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.’Matthew 19:18He saith to him, ‘What kind?’ And Jesus said, ‘Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,Matthew 19:19honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’Matthew 19:20The young man saith to him, ‘All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?’Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, ‘If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.’Matthew 19:22And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;Matthew 22:12and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.Matthew 22:13‘Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;Matthew 23:29‘Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,Matthew 23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.Matthew 23:31So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;Mark 2:16And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, ‘Why—that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?’Mark 8:15and he was charging them, saying, ‘Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,’Mark 10:17And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, ‘Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?’Mark 10:18And Jesus said to him, ‘Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God;Mark 10:19the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.’Mark 10:20And he answering said to him, ‘Teacher, all these did I keep from my youth.’Mark 10:21And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, ‘One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast—sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.’Mark 10:22And he—gloomy at the word—went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.Luke 5:30and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, ‘Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?’Luke 7:36And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),Luke 7:37and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,