Matthew 5:20

Legacy Standard Bible

“For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not 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 teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 18:5

And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;

Matthew 3:10

And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear 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 will enter.

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

Luke 12:1

At this time, after so many thousands of the crowd had gathered together that they were trampling on one another, He began saying to His disciples first, “Be on your guard for the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 18:17

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

2 Corinthians 5:17

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

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own which is from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith,

Hebrews 12:14

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

Revelation 21:27

And nothing defiled, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.