Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

At this, those eating with him began saying among themselves, "Who is this fellow that presumes to forgive sins?"

But he said to the woman, "Your trust has saved you; go in peace."

An expert in Torah stood up to try and trap him by asking, “Rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?”

But Yeshua said to him, “What is written in the Torah? How do you read it?”

He answered, “You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your understanding; and your neighbor as yourself.”

“That’s the right answer,” Yeshua said. “Do this, and you will have life.”

But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Yeshua, “And who is my ‘neighbor’?”

Taking up the question, Yeshua said: “A man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him naked and beat him up, then went off, leaving him half dead.

By coincidence, a cohen was going down on that road; but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Likewise a Levi who reached the place and saw him also passed by on the other side.

“But a man from Shomron who was traveling came upon him; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.

So he went up to him, put oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he set him on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day, he took out two days’ wages, gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend more than this, I’ll pay you back when I return.’

Of these three, which one seems to you to have become the ‘neighbor’ of the man who fell among robbers?”

He answered, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Yeshua said to him, “You go and do as he did.”

However, the Lord said to him, “Now then, you P’rushim, you clean the outside of the cup and plate; but inside, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

Fools! Didn’t the One who made the outside make the inside too?

Rather, give as alms what is inside, and then everything will be clean for you!

“But woe to you P’rushim! You pay your tithes of mint and rue and every garden herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You have an obligation to do these things — but without disregarding the others!

“Woe to you P’rushim, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces!

“Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”

and the P’rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. “This fellow,” they said, “welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!”

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came close to the house, he heard music and dancing.

So he called one of the servants and asked, ‘What’s going on?’

The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the calf that was fattened up, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.’