Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.

yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.