Matthew 5:20

Good News Translation

I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires.

Cross References

Matthew 16:12

Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 18:5

And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.

Matthew 3:10

The ax is ready to cut down the trees at the roots; every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.

Mark 10:15

I assure you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Mark 10:25

It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”

Luke 11:44

How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without knowing it.”

Luke 12:1

As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, “Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees—I mean their hypocrisy.

Luke 18:17

Remember this! Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

2 Corinthians 3:9

The system which brings condemnation was glorious; how much more glorious is the activity which brings salvation!

2 Corinthians 5:17

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

Philippians 3:9

and be completely united with him. I no longer have a righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by obeying the Law. I now have the righteousness that is given through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is based on faith.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing that is impure will enter the city, nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of the living will enter the city.