TOPICAL BIBLE
Self-Righteousness
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Luke 7:38and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.Luke 7:39And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, ‘This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.’Luke 7:40And Jesus answering said unto him, ‘Simon, I have something to say to thee;’ and he saith, ‘Teacher, say on.’Luke 7:41‘Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;Luke 7:42and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?’Luke 7:43And Simon answering said, ‘I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;’ and he said to him, ‘Rightly thou didst judge.’Luke 7:44And having turned unto the woman, he said to Simon, ‘Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; water for my feet thou didst not give, but this woman with tears did wet my feet, and with the hairs of her head did wipe;Luke 7:45a kiss to me thou didst not give, but this woman, from what time I came in, did not cease kissing my feet;Luke 7:46with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;Luke 7:47therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.’Luke 7:48And he said to her, ‘Thy sins have been forgiven;’Luke 7:49and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, ‘Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?’Luke 7:50and he said unto the woman, ‘Thy faith have saved thee, be going on to peace.’Luke 10:25And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, ‘Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?’Luke 10:26And he said unto him, ‘In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?’Luke 10:27And he answering said, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.’Luke 10:28And he said to him, ‘Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.’Luke 10:29And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’Luke 10:30and Jesus having taken up the word, said, ‘A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead.Luke 10:31‘And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;Luke 10:32and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.Luke 10:33‘But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,Luke 10:34and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;Luke 10:35and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.Luke 10:36‘Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?’Luke 10:37and he said, ‘He who did the kindness with him,’ then Jesus said to him, ‘Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.’Luke 11:33And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put it in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.Luke 11:34‘The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;Luke 11:35take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;Luke 11:36if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.’Luke 11:37And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),Luke 11:38and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.Luke 11:39And the Lord said unto him, ‘Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;Luke 11:40unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?Luke 11:41But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.Luke 11:42‘But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.Luke 11:43‘Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.Luke 11:44‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.’Luke 11:45And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, ‘Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;’Luke 11:46and he said, ‘And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.Luke 11:47‘Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Luke 11:48Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;Luke 11:49because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,Luke 11:50that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;Luke 11:51from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.Luke 11:52‘Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.’Luke 11:53And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,Luke 11:54laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.Luke 15:2and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying—This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.’Luke 15:25‘And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,Luke 15:26and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,Luke 15:27and he said to him—Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.Luke 15:28‘And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;Luke 15:29and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;Luke 15:30but when thy son—this one who did devour thy living with harlots—came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.Luke 15:31‘And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;Luke 15:32but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.’Luke 16:14And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,Luke 16:15and he said to them, ‘Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;Luke 18:9And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: