Matthew 5:20

A Conservative Version

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness abounds more than of the scholars and Pharisees, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

Matthew 7:21

Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.

Revelation 21:27

And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

Luke 18:17

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, will, no, not enter into it.

Luke 12:1

During which time the myriads of the multitude having gathered together so as to trample each other, he began first to say to his disciples, Take heed to yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like the unseen sepulchers, and the men who walk over them do not know.

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through the hole of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

Matthew 18:5

And whoever will receive one such child in my name receives me.

Matthew 3:10

And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that he said not to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.