Matthew 5:20

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I tell you, unless your righteousness is even better than the righteousness of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you won’t enter the kingdom of heaven.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

I want to belong to him, and I want to be right with God based not on my obedience to the law but on my faith in Christ.

Hebrews 12:14

Try your best to live at peace with everyone. Do everything you can to be holy, because without holiness no one will see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old is gone! The new is here!

Matthew 7:21

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

Revelation 21:27

Only what is pure will enter the city. No one will enter who does anything that’s shameful or deceitful; only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will enter.

Luke 18:17

Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t receive God’s kingdom like a little child will never enter it.”

Luke 12:1

During that time, when a crowd of so many thousands had gathered that the people were stepping on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples. He said, “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. They just pretend to be godly.

Luke 11:44

“Woe to you! You are like graves with no gravestones, so that people walk over them without knowing it.”

Mark 10:25

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

Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Matthew 18:5

And anyone who welcomes a child like this one in my name welcomes me.

Matthew 3:10

The ax is already at the tree roots, and any tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 16:12

Then the disciples understood that Jesus wasn’t telling them to watch out for the yeast that’s used in bread. He was warning them against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

2 Corinthians 3:9

If the law that condemns people to death had glory, how much more glorious will the work of the Spirit be! It makes people right with God.