9 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

Brethren, if anybody be detected in any misconduct, you who are spiritual should restore such a one in a spirit of meekness. And let each of you keep watch over himself, lest he also fall into temptation.

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.

But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.

and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.

and all went to be registered--every one to the town to which he belonged.

And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye.