Self-righteousness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningNumbers 16:3Deuteronomy 9:4–61 Samuel 2:9Job 6:13Job 11:4–6Job 12:2Job 13:3Job 13:13Job 13:15Job 13:18Job 13:19Job 16:17Job 16:18Job 18:2–4Job 21:27–29Job 22:2Job 22:3Job 32:1Job 32:2Job 33:8
• See Hypocrisy
• See Self-exaltation
• INSTANCES OF
• Saul1 Samuel 15:13–31
• Young man, see above
• Lawyer, see above
• PhariseesLuke 11:33–54John 8:33–59John 9:28–34
• IsraelRomans 10:3
• The Laodicean congregationRevelation 3:17

The passages, in Bible order (98)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Numbers 16:3

   They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 16:31 voice

   “Let those then who dissent learn to fear to rouse up the Lord, and to appease His priests. What! did not the earthquake swallow up Dathan, Abiron, and Korah because of their dissension? For when Korah, Dathan, and Abiron had stirred up two hundred and fifty men against Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from them, they rose up against them and said: "Let it suffice you that all the congregation are holy, every one, and the Lord is amongst them." Whereupon the Lord was angry and spoke to the whole congregation.

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2. Deuteronomy 9:4–6

   When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:4–62 voices

   “I ask, what could be said more clearly against that pernicious opinion and presumption of ours, by which we want to attribute everything that we do to our free will and to our own effort? "Do not say in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed them in your sight: Because of my righteousness the Lord has led me in to possess this land." Did he not express himself clearly to those whose souls' eyes are open and whose ears hear?

   “Speak not thou in thine heart,....

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3. 1 Samuel 2:9

   He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:92 voices

   “As if to say: Under such immense burdens they would collapse, if the Lord did not preserve their feet. The feet of His saints are indeed the affections of their minds. These are truly preserved by the Lord, because through Him the grace of wondrous devotion is poured in, by which they bear so great a burden willingly. The Lord is said to preserve the feet of His saints because they would flee the mass of so great a weight, if charity infused from above did not lighten what would otherwise be intolerably heavy for them.

   “He will keep the feet of his saints,.... Now follow promises and prophecies of future things respecting the Israel of God, either in a literal or spiritual sense.

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4. 1 Samuel 15:13–31

   When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:13–312 voices

   13. The word of the Lord was that he should have destroyed Amalek. But what does it mean that he says, "I have fulfilled the word of the Lord," unless that the sin of fornication, the more shameful it is perceived to be, the more carefully it is concealed by the reprobate? Because therefore those who are subject to this same vice of fornication always desire to remain hidden, in their type Saul both disdained to demolish Amalek and said to Samuel: "I have fulfilled the word of the Lord."

   “And Samuel came to Saul,....

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5. Job 6:13

   Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

   ›Commentary on Job 6:131 voice

   “Lo, there is no help to me in myself. It is now made clear to whom the mind of the stricken man had recourse for hope, seeing that he declares that there was no hope to him in himself; but because he intimates that in himself he was weak, for the earning of yet greater strength, let him add how he was even forsaken by his neighbours, My friends also departed from me. But mark, he that was despised without, is seated within upon the throne of judgment.

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6. Job 11:4–6

   You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

   ›Commentary on Job 11:4–61 voice

   “For Thou hast said, My speech is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes. Whoso remembers the words of blessed Job, knows how falsely this charge is fastened upon his voice.

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7. Job 12:2

   “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

   ›Commentary on Job 12:22 voices

   “Job speaks in an admirable way. Instead of briefly saying, "You would not be able to be men," he questions them, and what does he ask? "So are you really men, and shall wisdom die with you?" This means, "Is the honor of rational beings …

   “No doubt but ye are the only men, and wisdom shall die with you. Now Zophar would have said this aright, if blessed Job had not proclaimed it all more fully even by living accordingly.

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8. Job 13:3

   Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

   ›Commentary on Job 13:31 voice

   “Yet still I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. We 'speak with the Almighty,' when we beseech His pity; but we 'reason with Him,' when uniting ourselves to His righteousness, we sift our actions with minute investigation. Or otherwise, to 'reason with God,' is for him who obeyed His commandments here, to come with Him hereafter as Judge to judge the people.

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9. Job 13:13

   Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

   ›Commentary on Job 13:131 voice

   “Hold your peace for a little, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall bid me. He shews that they spoke with the perception of the flesh, whom he therefore binds to silence, that he may speak that which 'his mind bids him.' As if he said in plain words, 'I do not speak in a carnal, but in a spiritual way, because; hear by the perception of the Spirit things that I bring forth by the service of the body.

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10. Job 13:15

    Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

    ›Commentary on Job 13:151 voice

    “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. But I will rebuke mine own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation. There is no room for the virtue of patience in prosperous circumstances. He is really patient, who is at once bruised with misfortune, and yet not bowed down from the erectness of his hope. Concerning the temper of mind of the reprobate man it is written, He will praise Thee, when Thou doest well to him.

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11. Job 13:18

    Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.

    ›Commentary on Job 13:181 voice

    “If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. Which too is not at variance with the person of the self-same blessed Job, since he is only telling that concerning himself without, which 'Truth' had inwardly declared to his enemy concerning him; Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth? And yet it is much less that the holy man records concerning himself, than what the Lord declared concerning him. For it is one thing to be 'just,' and another to have 'none like him.'

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12. Job 13:19

    Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

    ›Commentary on Job 13:191 voice

    “Who is he that will plead with me? Let him come. Holy men so guard themselves in their good works, with God for their aid, that there can be no where found, without, grounds, whereon to accuse them; but within, in the secret thoughts of their own hearts, they watch over themselves with such good heed, that, if it might be, they may at all times stand blameless before the eyes of the interior Judge.

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13. Job 16:17

    yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

    ›Commentary on Job 16:171 voice

    “Ver. 17. I have suffered this without the wickedness of mine hand, whilst I made pure prayers to God. He suffered without the wickedness of His hand; Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, and yet endured the pain of the Cross for our redemption. Who only above all others 'made pure prayers to God,' in that even in the very anguish of His Passion He prayed in behalf of His persecutors, saying, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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14. Job 16:18

    O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

    ›Commentary on Job 16:182 voices

    “Ver. 18. O earth, cover thou not my blood; and let my cry find no place to lie hid in thee. It was said to man on his committing sin, Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return; and this 'earth' does not 'cover the blood' of our Redeemer: in that each several sinner taking to himself the price of his redemption makes confession and sings praise, and publishes it to all of his neighbours that he is able.

    “O earth, cover not thou my blood,....

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15. Job 18:2–4

    “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

    ›Commentary on Job 18:2–42 voices

    “Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Unto what end will ye cast abroad words? understand first, and so let us speak. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION We have already said frequently that blessed Job bears a type of the Holy Church universal, and that his friends bear the likeness of heretics, who as it were on the plea of defence of the Lord find occasion of foolish talking, and let loose insulting words against good men; to whom all is displeasing that is thought by the faithful, as though it were uttered to the wind.

    “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words?....

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16. Job 21:27–29

    Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

    ›Commentary on Job 21:27–291 voice

    “Ver. 27, 28. Behold I know your thoughts, and the devices that ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellings of the wicked? 63. For they had imagined him a wicked man, whom they saw, his substance gone, in a temporal way ruined. But the holy man judges them with a lofty review in proportion as amidst the losses which he had met with, he was standing with undiminished uprightness.

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