Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'

and he said unto the woman, `Thy faith have saved thee, be going on to peace.'

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

and Jesus having taken up the word , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead.

`And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;

and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.

`But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,

and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;

and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.

`Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'

And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

`But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

`Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

`Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

and he said to him--Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.