12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

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.

For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

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

The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.