For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Prushim, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the Torah, but that which is through the faith of Moshiach, the righteousness which is of Elohim by faith:
And when they heard it, they glorified YY , and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the Torah:
Woe unto you, scribes and Prushim, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
And the king called the Givonites, and said unto them; (now the Givonites were not of the children of Yisrael, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Yisrael had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Yisrael and Yhudah.)
As also kohen hagadol doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Dammasek, to bring them which were there bound unto Yerushalayim, for to be punished.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of Elohim, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Then the men of the city said unto Yoash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.