23 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Then Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself and is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household.

"Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself, and he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household. He is to slaughter the sin offering bull which is for himself,

Nobody is to be in the Meeting Tent when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he goes out, and he has made atonement on his behalf, on behalf of his household, and on behalf of the whole assembly of Israel.

Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering. So he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and the people.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

For he says: "By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers.

But I am full of the courage that the Lord's Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

Everyone went to his own town to be registered.

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

"The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart."

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

With his own hands he must bring the Lord's gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord,

My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba -- in number like the sand by the sea! -- be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.