26 Bible Verses about Self Righteousness, And The Gospel

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, ??12 and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

But the taxgatherer stood far away and would not lift even his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'O God, have mercy on me for my sins!' I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

so that, as it is written, let him who boasts boast of the Lord.

Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh! But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.