27 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, And The Gospel

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith,

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life??hese do not come from the Father, but from the world;

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!' I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith.

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

so that, as the Scripture says, "Let him who would boast, boast of the Lord!"

For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.

Why, even those who let themselves be circumcised do not observe the Law themselves! But they want you to let yourselves be circumcised so that they can boast of that physical fact about you! But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss. Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.