Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness: Ineffectual for salvation

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.