29 Bible Verses about Selfishness

If a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food, and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

If a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food, and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

And by chance a certain priest came down that way: and seeing him, passed by on the other side. And likewise also a Levite, being at the place, coming and seeing, passed by on the other side.

and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Then Judas, the one having betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, being seized with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it.

as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law; to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law. read more.
To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some. But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

Jesus says to them, My food is that I may do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

for Christ did not please himself; but, as has been written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

But they bind heavy burdens, and place them on the shoulders of the people; and they themselves are not willing to touch them with their finger.

as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.

For we indeed have many members in one body, but all the members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another.

Let no one seek his own, but that of another.

looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.

among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:

for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.

For the love of Christ constrains us; having judged this, that one died for all; then were all dead; and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.

and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.

does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

I was a stranger and you took me not in; was naked, and you clothed me not; was sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.

For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

And He said to her, What do you wish? She says to Him, Tell me that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.

Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him?

But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

And they said to Him, Grant unto us, that we may sit, one on thy right, and one on thy left, in thy glory.

And they said to Him, Grant unto us, that we may sit, one on thy right, and one on thy left, in thy glory.