67 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great: For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues, And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.

But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.

What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.