12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.