Matthew 5:20

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I tell you that you must do better than the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. If you are not more pleasing to God than they are, you will never enter God’s kingdom.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

I want to belong to him. In Christ I am right with God, but my being right does not come from following the law. It comes from God through faith. God uses my faith in Christ to make me right with him.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with everyone. And try to keep your lives free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

When anyone is in Christ, it is a whole new world. The old things are gone; suddenly, everything is new!

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter God’s kingdom. The only people who will enter are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.

Revelation 21:27

Nothing unclean will ever enter the city. No one who does shameful things or tells lies will ever enter the city. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will enter the city.

Luke 18:17

The truth is, you must accept God’s kingdom like a little child accepts things, or you will never enter it.”

Luke 12:1

Many thousands of people came together. There were so many people that they were stepping on each other. Before Jesus spoke to the people, he said to his followers, “Be careful of the yeast of the Pharisees. I mean that they are hypocrites.

Luke 11:44

It will be bad for you, because you are like hidden graves. People walk on them without knowing it.”

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom!”

Mark 10:15

The truth is, you must accept God’s kingdom like a little child accepts things, or you will never enter it.”

Matthew 18:5

“Whoever accepts a little child like this in my name is accepting me.

Matthew 3:10

The ax is now ready to cut down the trees. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 16:12

Then the followers understood what Jesus meant. He was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread. He was telling them to guard against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

2 Corinthians 3:9

This is what I mean: That old agreement judged people guilty of sin, but it had glory. So surely the new agreement that makes people right with God has much greater glory.