Bible Cross References
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 1:11-15
11
Of what [value] to Me is the abundance of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats;
12
neither shall you come [with these] to appear before Me; for who has required these things at your hands? You shall no more tread My court.
13
Though you bring fine flour, [it is] futile; incense is an abomination to Me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;
14
[your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts My soul hates; you have become loathsome to Me; I will no more pardon your sins.
15
When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2-6
2
They seek Me day by day, and desire to know My ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God; they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,
3
saying, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? [Why] have we afflicted our souls, and You did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you wound.
4
If you fast for quarrels and strife, and strike the lowly with [your] fists, why do you fast to Me as [you do] this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?
5
I have not chosen this fast, nor [such] a day for a man to afflict his soul; although you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you call a fast acceptable.
6
I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account?
Isaiah 59:6-8
6
Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.
7
And their feet run to wickedness, [and are] swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
8
and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
Isaiah 64:5
For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember Your ways; behold, You were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,
Isaiah 66:3
But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to Me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to Me; I spoke, and they heard not; and they did evil before Me, and chose the things in which I did not delight.
Jeremiah 7:4-11
4
Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
5
For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6
and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt;
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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old, and forever.
8
But seeing you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;
9
and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,
10
so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.
11
Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.
Micah 3:2-4
2
Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:
3
even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,
4
thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of their garments.
Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
Romans 3:10-20
10
Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,
11
There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.
12
All [have] turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not [one] doing kindness, there is not so much as one."
13
"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";
14
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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Ruin and misery are in their ways;
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And the way of peace they did not know.
18
There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19
Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20
Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.
Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:3
For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.