23 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Brothers,if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

"Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

"Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.

No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.

And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."

Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?

His own hands shall bring the LORD's food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.

But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.