Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.