The Pitfall of Self-Righteousness

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. Charles Spurgeon.

Matthew 6:1 GW

Be careful not to do your good works in public in order to attract attention. If you do, your Father in heaven will not reward you.

Matthew 23:27-28 NLT

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Romans 10:3 AMP

For not knowing about God’s righteousness [which is based on faith], and seeking to establish their own [righteousness based on works], they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Galatians 6:3 AMP

For if anyone thinks he is something [special] when [in fact] he is nothing [special except in his own eyes], he deceives himself.

Isaiah 64:6 NLT

We are all infected and impure with sin.
    When we display our righteous deeds,
    they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
    and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

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