9 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Brothers, even if a man should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help him to recover himself, taking care lest any one of you also should be tempted.

What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?

You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also.

Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.

And from among yourselves, too, men will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them.

And every one went to his own town to be registered.

And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours?

Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.