Matthew 5:20

New American Bible - revised edition

I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Teaching About Anger.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith

Hebrews 12:14

Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Revelation 21:27

but nothing unclean will enter it, nor any[one] who does abominable things or tells lies. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Luke 18:17

Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.” The Rich Official.

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, so many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. He began to speak, first to his disciples, “Beware of the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees. Courage Under Persecution.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.”

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to pass through [the] eye of [a] needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Mark 10:15

Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.”

Matthew 18:5

And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me. Temptations to Sin.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that he was not telling them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Peter’s Confession About Jesus.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness will abound much more in glory.