New Revised Standard Version
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Contemporary English Version
You must obey God's commands better than the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law obey them. If you don't, I promise you will never get into the kingdom of heaven.

New American Bible
I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

exceed.

Matthew 23:2-5,23-28 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. . . .

Luke 11:39,40,44 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. . . .

Luke 12:1 And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 16:14,15 Now the Pharisees, 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, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts: . . .

Romans 9:30-32 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. . . .

Romans 10:2,3 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:17 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

ye.

Matthew 3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

Mark 10:15,25 Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it. . . .

Luke 18:17,24,25 Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it. . . .

John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless 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 God.

Revelation 21:27 There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.