Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:

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

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

But we had in ourselves the answer of death, 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 who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God commendeth.

For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.