Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

for if God the natural branches did not spare--lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

and he who is boasting--in the Lord let him boast;

for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

for if any one doth think himself to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ--the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

because thou sayest--I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.