But for those who are selfishly ambitious and self-seeking and disobedient to the truth but responsive to wickedness, [there will be] wrath and indignation.

It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured.

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For it is needful that the overseer be - unaccusable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not ready to wound, not seeking gain by base means,

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.