Exodus 34:7
34:7 keeping loyal love for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression
of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
Job 4:17
4:17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God?
Or a man pure before his Creator?
Job 9:2-3
9:2 “Truly, I know that this is so.
But how can a human be just before God?
9:3 If someone wishes to contend with him,
he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
Job 15:14
15:14 What is man that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
25:4 How then can a human being be righteous before God?
How can one born of a woman be pure?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
7:20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth
who continually does good and never sins.
Romans 3:20
3:20 For
no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law,
for through the law comes
the knowledge of sin.
Galatians 2:16
2:16 yet we know
that no one
is justified by the works of the law
but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.
And
we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ
and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one
will be justified.
Galatians 2:1
Confirmation from the Jerusalem Apostles
2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.
Galatians 1:10
1:10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people,
or of God? Or am I trying to please people?
If I were still trying to please
people,
I would not be a slave
of Christ!