Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the tzaddikim,

and you say, `Had we lived when our fathers did, we would never have taken part in killing the prophets.'

In this you testify against yourselves that you are worthy descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

When the Torah-teachers and the P'rushim saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his talmidim, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"

So when Yeshua said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and the hametz of Herod,"

As he was starting on his way, a man ran up, kneeled down in front of him and asked, "Good rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?"

Yeshua said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good except God!

You know the mitzvot -- `Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't give false testimony, don't defraud, honor your father and mother, . .'"

"Rabbi," he said, "I have kept all these since I was a boy."

Yeshua, looking at him, felt love for him and said to him, "You're missing one thing. Go, sell whatever you own, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"

Shocked by this word, he went away sad; because he was a wealthy man.

The P'rushim and their Torah-teachers protested indignantly against his talmidim, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?"

One of the P'rushim invited Yeshua to eat with him, and he went into the home of the Parush and took his place at the table.

A woman who lived in that town, a sinner, who was aware that he was eating in the home of the Parush, brought an alabaster box of very expensive perfume,

stood behind Yeshua at his feet and wept until her tears began to wet his feet. Then she wiped his feet with her own hair, kissed his feet and poured the perfume on them.

When the Parush who had invited him saw what was going on, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what sort of woman she is, that she is a sinner."

Yeshua answered, "Shim`on, I have something to say to you." "Say it, Rabbi," he replied.

"A certain creditor had two debtors; the one owed ten times as much as the other.

When they were unable to pay him back, he canceled both their debts. Now which of them will love him more?"

Shim`on answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt." "Your judgment is right," Yeshua said to him.

Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim`on, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house -- you didn't give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!

You didn't give me a kiss; but from the time I arrived, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet!

You didn't put oil on my head, but this woman poured perfume on my feet!

Because of this, I tell you that her sins -- which are many! -- have been forgiven, because she loved much. But someone who has been forgiven only a little loves only a little."

Then he said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven."