Self-Righteousness
Matt 23:25-26 NIV
25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites ! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
Matt 23:27-28 NIV
27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites ! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Prov 20:6 KJV
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Prov 21:2 NIV
2 All a man's ways seem right to him,
but the LORD weighs the heart.
Prov 30:12 NIV
12 those who are pure in their own eyes
and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
Job 9:30-31 NIV
30 Even if I washed myself with soap
and my hands with washing soda,
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit
so that even my clothes would detest me.
Isa 57:12 NIV
12 I will expose your righteousness and your works,
and they will not benefit you.
Isa 64:6 NIV
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
Luke 16:15 NIV
15 He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.
Rom 10:3 NIV
3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
