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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mat 5:20 — For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Mat 23:2 |
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: |
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Mat 23:3 |
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. |
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Mat 23:4 |
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their fingers. |
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Mat 23:5 |
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, |
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Mat 23:23 |
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. |
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Mat 23:24 |
[Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. |
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Mat 23:25 |
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. |
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Mat 23:26 |
[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. |
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Mat 23:27 |
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness. |
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Mat 23:28 |
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
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Luk 11:39 |
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. |
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Luk 11:40 |
[Ye] fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? |
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Luk 11:44 |
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them]. |
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Luk 12:1 |
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. |
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Luk 16:14 |
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. |
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Luk 16:15 |
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. |
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Luk 18:10 |
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. |
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Luk 18:11 |
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men [are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. |
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Luk 18:12 |
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. |
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Luk 18:13 |
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. |
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Luk 18:14 |
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. |
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Luk 20:46 |
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; |
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Luk 20:47 |
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. |
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Rom 9:30 |
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. |
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Rom 9:31 |
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
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Rom 9:32 |
Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; |
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Rom 10:2 |
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. |
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Rom 10:3 |
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. |
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2Cr 5:17 |
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. |
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Phl 3:9 |
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: |
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Mat 3:10 |
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
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Mat 7:21 |
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. |
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Mat 18:5 |
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. |
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Mar 10:15 |
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. |
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Mar 10:25 |
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Luk 18:17 |
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. |
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Luk 18:24 |
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! |
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Luk 18:25 |
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Jhn 3:3 |
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. |
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Jhn 3:4 |
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? |
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Jhn 3:5 |
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Hbr 12:14 |
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: |
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Rev 21:27 |
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 5:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mat/5/20.html>.
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