29 Bible Verses about Selfishness

Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

And it so fell out, that a certain priest went down that way, and seeing him, he kept the opposite side of the road. And a Levite also, in the same way, being near the place, came, and seeing him, kept the opposite side of the road.

and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Then Judas who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting, carried back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and the elders, saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

even as I please all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

For though I be free from all men, I have made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law. read more.
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak; I became all things to all men, that by every means I might save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

For even Christ gratified not himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

For they bind burdens grievous, and difficultly borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they will not move them with a finger of their own.

even as I please all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

For as we have in one body many members, but the members, though many, have not the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one reciprocally members of each other.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. read more.
If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body? And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body? If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen. But if the whole were one member, where were the body? But now the members indeed are many, but the body one. Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be more feeble, are necessary: and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Let no man seek his own gratification, but every one another's good.

Let not each aim at their own particular interests, but every man at those of others.

among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil;

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,

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye did not clothe me: sick, and in prison, and ye took no care of me.

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Then he said to her, What is thy wish? She saith unto him, Tell me that these my two sons shall sit, the one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left, in thy kingdom.

But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

WE then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are feeble, and not to gratify ourselves.

They say unto him, Grant us to sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy glory.

They say unto him, Grant us to sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy glory.