Bible Cross References
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 1:11-15
11
What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of well-fed cattle; nor do I delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs, or he goats.
12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
13
Bring no more vain sacrifices; its incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies, and the wicked festivals.
14
My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
15
And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2-6
2
Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.
3
They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you devise pleasures, and oppress all your laborers.
4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice heard on high.
5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?
6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 59:6-8
6
Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways (Behold, You were angry, for we sinned continually), and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose the things that delude them, and I will bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they have not obeyed. But they did evil before My eyes and have chosen that in which I have not delighted.
Jeremiah 7:4-11
4
Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, This is the temple of Jehovah.
5
For if you thoroughly make your ways and your doings good; if you work to execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
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if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;
7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8
Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.
9
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;
10
and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?
11
Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Jehovah.
Micah 3:2-4
2
You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3
who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin off from them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh in the kettle.
4
Then they shall cry out to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their doings.
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.
Romans 3:10-20
10
As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;
11
there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.
12
They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.
13
Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; 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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destruction and misery are in their ways;
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and the way of peace they have not known.
18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20
Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.
Romans 10:2
For I bear witness of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full true knowledge.
Romans 10:3
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.