uSee 1 Pet. 2:8
vSee Acts 21:20
Matthew 5:20
20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds athat of the scribes and Pharisees, you bwill never enter the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 23:25
25 c“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For dyou clean the outside of ethe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of fgreed and self-indulgence.Mark 10:20-21
20And he said to him, “Teacher, gall these I have kept from my youth.” 21And Jesus, hlooking at him, iloved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, jsell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have ktreasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”Luke 1:6
6And they were both lrighteous before God, walking mblamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.Acts 26:5
5They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that naccording to the strictest oparty of our preligion I have lived as qa Pharisee.Romans 7:9
9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.Romans 9:31-32
31but that Israel rwho pursued a law that would lead to righteousness ▼▼Greek a law of righteousness
tdid not succeed in reaching that law. 32Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the ustumbling stone, Romans 10:2-5
2For I bear them witness that vthey have a zeal for God, wbut not according to knowledge. 3For, being ignorant of xthe righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4For yChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. ▼▼Or end of the law, that everyone who believes may be justified
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5For aaMoses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that abthe person who does the commandments shall live by them.
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