12 Bible Verses about Self Love
Most Relevant Verses
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.
BUT this know, that in the last days distressing times will come. For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,read more.
treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.
And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.
Jesus replied to them and said, Ye seek me, not because ye have seen the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.
Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],
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