9 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

You know yourselves that these hands of mine provided for my own needs and for my companions.

But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

So everyone was going to his own town to register.

Why do you keep watching the tiny speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the girder in your own?

You hypocrite, first get the girder out of your own eye, and then you can see well enough to get the tiny speck out of your brother's eye.