Isaiah 57:12

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

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1 Kings 11:4
When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

1 Kings 15:3
He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

2 Chronicles 25:2
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Matthew 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23:29
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Matthew 23:30
and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

Matthew 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 23:36
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

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Nehemiah 9:19
yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

Nehemiah 9:31
“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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Nehemiah 9:34
Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

Isaiah 53:8
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Ezekiel 17:21
All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’

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Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:3
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 23:5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

Galatians 1:14
I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Isaiah 57:8
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.

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Isaiah 66:13
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

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Jeremiah 48:40
For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.

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Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

Revelation 7:13
One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

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Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

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Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.

Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

Romans 4:7
“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

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Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Isaiah 56:1
Yahweh says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Isaiah 57:14
He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Romans 3:22
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Galatians 5:3
Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Revelation 20:12
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Revelation 3:2
Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

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