Matthew 5:20

English Majority Text Version

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Cross References

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 18:5

And whoever receives one such little child in My name, receives Me.

Matthew 3:10

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:21

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

Mark 10:15

Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it."

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God."

Luke 11:44

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking over them do not know it."

Luke 12:1

Now in the meantime, as an innumerable crowd had gathered together so that they were stepping on one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 18:17

Assuredly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter into it."

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, the righteousness of the law, but the righteousness by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace and holiness with all people, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Revelation 21:27

But there shall by no means enter into it any common thing, and the one doing an abomination and a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.