Matthew 5:20

World Messianic Bible British Edition

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Cross References

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 18:5

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

Matthew 3:10

Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Mark 10:15

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 18:17

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Hebrews 12:14

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Revelation 21:27

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.