Self-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning
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Numbers 16:3
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift you up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
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Deuteronomy 9:4-6
Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.
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1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
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Job 6:13
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Job 11:4-6
For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
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Job 12:2
No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
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Job 13:3,13,15,18,19
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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Job 16:17,18
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
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Job 18:2-4
How long will it be ere you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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Job 21:27-29
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
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Job 22:2,3
Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?
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Job 32:1,2
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Job 33:8,9
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
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Job 35:2,7,8
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
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Psalm 10:5,6
His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
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Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise.
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Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.
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Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
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Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
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Proverbs 25:14,27
Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
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Proverbs 26:12
See you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Proverbs 27:2,21
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
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Proverbs 28:13,26
He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
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Proverbs 30:12,13
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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Isaiah 5:21
Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Isaiah 28:17,20
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
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Isaiah 47:7
And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
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Isaiah 50:11
Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
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Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Isaiah 65:3-5
A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense on altars of brick;
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Jeremiah 2:13,22,23,34,35
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Jeremiah 7:4
Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
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Jeremiah 8:8
How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? See, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
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Jeremiah 17:5
Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:4,16
Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?
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Ezekiel 33:24-26
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
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Amos 6:13
You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
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Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
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Zephaniah 3:11
In that day shall you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the middle of you them that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
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Matthew 7:22,23
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
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Matthew 9:10-13
And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
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Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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Matthew 19:16-22
And, behold, one came and said to him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
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Matthew 22:12,13
And he said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
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Matthew 23:29-31
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
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Mark 2:16
And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?
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Mark 8:15
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
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Mark 10:17-22
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
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Luke 5:30
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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Luke 7:36-50
And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
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Luke 10:25-37
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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Luke 15:2,25-32
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them.
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Luke 16:14,15
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Luke 18:9-14,18-23
And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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John 9:34,39-41
They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.
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Romans 2:17-20
Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
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Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.
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Romans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
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Romans 11:19-21
You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
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2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
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2 Corinthians 10:17,18
But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
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Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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Revelation 3:17,18
Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
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The Second Series of Parables - the Two Parables of Him who is ...
... referred the lawyer to the Scriptures, he could ... They separated themselves in
self-righteousness and pride - and ... him three' loaves, but, in general, as many as ...
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The Extent and Reasonableness of Self-Denial
... If not, whence so much self-righteousness, whence the self ... But I pass on to the second
general thing proposed ... greatly err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the ...
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The Evening of the Third Day in Passion-Week - on the Mount of ...
... to say, that, according to general opinion, the ... of the strangest mixtures of
self-righteousness and realism ... references to the prophetic Scriptures, that every ...
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General Index.
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355-374. ... self-righteousness of, 27. ... see also Bible; Scriptures. ...
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part ii.
... never degenerate into superstition or self-righteousness; and its ... The Scriptures
favor the idea of frequency in giving ... may probably be adopted a general rule by ...
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The Prophetic Theme. Rev. Gervase Smith.
... we understand him to mean, in general terms, that ... do away with the last vestige of
self-righteousness in man ... that they might understand the Scriptures, and said ...
/.../the wesleyan methodist pulpit in malvern/the prophetic theme rev gervase.htm

Introduction.
... With complacent self-righteousness they would stand on the ... In the general history
of the world, the most ... been well instructed in the Scriptures, understood the ...
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Sin and Grace
... You must starve the sinner's self-righteousness to mane him ... Now I must close with
a few general observations upon ... of whom we read in the Scriptures, were all ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 54 1908/sin and grace.htm

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
... the genuineness of the Scriptures which Baur ... was captured by the Roman general Mummius. ...
referring to their ostentatious self-righteousness, pathetically shows ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter x the first epistle.htm

The Conversion of Paul.
... the Sanhedrin, a sort of inquisitor-general, with full ... his mind from the Holy Scriptures
and showed ... of the Epistle against the self-righteousness, and bondage ...
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Subtopics

Self-Righteousness

Self-Righteousness is Boastful

Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: But External

Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: But Partial

Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: Ineffectual for Salvation

Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: No Better than Filthy Rags

Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: Unprofitable

Self-Righteousness: Church of Laodicea

Self-Righteousness: Denunciation Against

Self-Righteousness: Folly of

Self-Righteousness: General Scriptures Concerning

Self-Righteousness: Hateful to God

Self-Righteousness: Illustrated

Self-Righteousness: Israel

Self-Righteousness: Lawyer

Self-Righteousness: Man is Prone To

Self-Righteousness: Pharisees

Self-Righteousness: Saints Renounce

Self-Righteousness: Saul

Self-Righteousness: The Laodicean Congregation

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to are Abominable Before God

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to are Pure in Their own Eyes

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Audaciously Approach God

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Condemn Others

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Consider Their own Way Right

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Despise Others

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Proclaim Their own Goodness

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Reject the Righteousness of God

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Seek to Justify Themselves

Self-Righteousness: They Who are Given to Seek to Justify Themselves Before Men

Self-Righteousness: Warning Against

Self-Righteousness: Young Man

Supererogation: The Doctrine of Excessive and Meritorious Righteousness

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