12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

“The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”

Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,