Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

The Lord Our Righteousness
... in particular, must acknowledge, that self- righteousness is the ... pronounce the damnatory
sentence: but all in vain. ... do I mention you last, because I despise ...
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Sanctification.
... our sins; but rather to confirm the soul in self-righteousness and unbelief. ... Now
all this is vain and wrong ... Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were ...
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Washed to Greater Foulness
... Because he had taken snow-water and had washed his ... to MOSES, and what narrow and
vain searches she ... least an apron of the linsey-woolsey of self-righteousness. ...
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The Barren Fig-Tree.
... were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such ... was turned to the
account of their own self-righteousness. ... to whom God looked in vain for the ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
... God has made nothing in vain. ... 82] So, when they were come again into the house, because
supper as ... I see there was something to be learned by our being pardoned ...
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Memoir of John Bunyan
... sacrifice made at the shrine of self-righteousness was dancing ... had been connected
with the government, because, with the ... to get in, but all in vain, even until ...
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