'For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.Matthew 5:20 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleExcept your righteousness shall exceed - περισσευση, Unless your righteousness abound more - unless it take in, not only the letter, but the spirit and design of the moral and ritual precept; the one directing you how to walk so as to please God; the other pointing out Christ, the great Atonement, through and by which a sinner is enabled to do so - more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, who only attend to the letter of the law, and had indeed made even that of no effect by their traditions - ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. This fully explains the meaning of the preceding verse. The old English word is right-wiseness, i.e. complete, thorough, excellent Wisdom. For a full explanation of this verse, see Luke 18:10, etc.
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Matthew 23:2-5,23-28 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat...
Luke 11:39,40,44 And the Lord said to him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter...
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they stepped one on another...
Luke 16:14,15 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him...
Luke 18:10-14 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican...
Luke 20:46,47 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues...
Romans 9:30-32 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness...
Romans 10:2,3 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge...
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ...
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Matthew 3:10 And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down...
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Matthew 18:5 And whoever shall receive one such little child in my name receives me.
Mark 10:15,25 Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein...
Luke 18:17,24,25 Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein...
John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God...
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie...
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