Matthew 5:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

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

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!

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 anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Luke 18:17

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”

Mark 10:25

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

Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Matthew 18:5

Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the ax is lying 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 had not told them to beware of the yeast of bread but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!