12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

For where [there is] jealousy and selfish ambition, there [is] disorder and every evil practice.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

The second [is] this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses [it] will keep it.

whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the stomach, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things.