Self-Righteousness is Vain Because Our Righteousness Is: Ineffectual for Salvation

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

…then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.