Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

You ask, 'Where is the great man's house? Where is the tent where the wicked once lived?'

Haven't you ever questioned travelers? Don't you accept their testimony

"Can a human be of advantage to God? Can even the wisest benefit him?

Does Shaddai gain if you are righteous? Does he profit if you make your ways blameless?

So these three men stopped trying to answer Iyov, because he remained convinced of his own righteousness.

But then the anger of Elihu the son of Barakh'el the Buzi, from the family of Ram, blazed up against Iyov for thinking he was right and God wrong.

"You spoke within my hearing, and I heard what you said -

'I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, not guilty.

"Are you so convinced you are right, that you say, 'I am more just than God'?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? What benefit does he get from you?

Your wickedness can affect only others like you, and your righteousness only other human beings.

His ways prosper at all times. Your judgments are way up there, so he takes no notice. His adversaries? He scoffs at them all.

In his heart he thinks, "I will never be shaken; I won't meet trouble, not now or ever."

Fools suppose their way is straight, but the wise pay attention to advice.

There can be a way which seems right to a person, but at its end are the ways of death.

All a man's ways are pure in his own view, but ADONAI weighs the spirit.

Most people announce that they show kindness, but who can find someone faithful [enough to do it]?

All a person's ways are right in his own view, but ADONAI weighs the heart.

Like clouds and wind that bring no rain is he who boasts of gifts he never gives.

It isn't good to eat too much honey or to seek honor after honor.

Do you see someone who thinks himself wise? There is more hope for a fool than for him!

Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but a person [is tested] by [his reaction to] praise.

He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who lives by wisdom will escape.