Matthew 5:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 18:5

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;

Matthew 3:10

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:21

“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Mark 10:15

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

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 graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.”

Luke 12:1

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of 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 shall not enter it.”

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith;

Hebrews 12:14

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

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.