67 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves. Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.

For whoever wants save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good-news, this man will save it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever may lose his life because of me, this man will save it.

For if thy brother is distressed because of food, thou no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with thy food that man for whom Christ died.

Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth. This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men. For it is better that it be said to thee, Come up here, than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

And he who will exalt himself will be made low, and he who will make himself low will be exalted.

Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared for him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king. And he prepared chariots for him, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north.

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and do not look back. Terror is on every side, says LORD.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h

And he said to her, What do thou want? She says to him, Speak that these my two sons may sit, one at thy right hand and one at thy left hand in thy kingdom.

And they love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be designated by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Beware of the scholars, who desire to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at the feasts,

And he spoke a parable to those who were invited when he noticed how they chose out the chief places, saying to them,

And also a dispute develop among them, which of them is considered to be greater.

for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort [justice],

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark.

And they all from one began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it. I ask thee have me excused.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin. For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart [on it].

A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

When I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylon mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And, behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

But having become somber at the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was a man who has many possessions.

But when he heard these things, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

he said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed out to him thirty silver pieces.

And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.

Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their business was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

He also hoped simultaneously that money would be given him by Paul so that he might free him. And so, summoning him more frequently, he conversed with him.

having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.