23 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

They said then to him, 'Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

and Aaron hath brought near the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own, and hath made atonement for himself, and for his house;

And Aaron hath brought near the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own, and hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and hath slaughtered the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own,

'And no man is in the tent of meeting in his going in to make atonement in the sanctuary, till his coming out; and he hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the assembly of Israel.

and he hath bathed his flesh with water in the holy place, and hath put on his garments, and hath come out, and hath made his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and hath made atonement for himself and for the people;

If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest it.

For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

and all were going to be enrolled, each to his proper city,

And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.

Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This is thy vexation, for it is bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?

his own hands do bring in the fire-offerings of Jehovah, the fat beside the breast, it he doth bring in with the breast, to wave it -- a wave-offering before Jehovah.

So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;