23/06/2019
“For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”
— Isaiah 64:6
“And Jesus answered and said to them, " It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
— Luke 5:31-32
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Since no one is righteous apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, the “righteous” referenced in Luke 5 are the self-righteous who think they have what it takes to make it to heaven by their own works or subliminally think they do not need God or Scripture because they are morally superior to God or know better than Scripture.
Self-righteousness.
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