67 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and of the gospel will save it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

Let no one seek {his own good} but the [good] of the other.

We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

Ah! Those who {join} house with house, they join field together with field until {there is no place} and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

And the king answered and said, "Is this not the great Babylon which I have built as a royal palace by the strength of my own power, and for the glory of my own majesty?"

for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

You have lived self-indulgently on the earth and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

To eat much honey is not good, nor [is] seeking one's honor honorable.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

Haughtiness of [the] eyes and pride of heart, [the] lamp of the wicked [are] sin.

Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand. For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.

It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him.

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him.

And you yourself said in your heart, 'I will ascend [to] heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on [the] mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;

Why do I see them terrified? [They are] turning back and their warriors are beaten down. And they have fled [to] a place of refuge and they do not turn [back]. Terror [is] from all around," {declares} Yahweh.

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.

And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom."

And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called 'Rabbi' by people.

"Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them,

And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.

For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.

who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

You will not {follow} a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert [justice].

For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a person give in exchange for his life?

For what is a person benefited [if he] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Set your mind on the things above, not [on] the things on earth.

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].

training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

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

And they all {alike} began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field, and {I must} go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.'

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain [confidence] in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set [your] heart [on it].

A man of faithfulness [has] abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.

And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not [even] when someone has an abundance {does} his life [consist] of his possessions."

I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. {As Yahweh lives}, I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him."

Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."

But [when] the young man heard the statement, he went away sorrowful, because he was one who had many possessions.

But he looked gloomy at the statement [and] went away sorrowful, {because he had} many possessions.

But [when he] heard these [things] he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.

[and] said, "What are you willing to give me if I in turn deliver him to you?" So they set out for him thirty silver coins.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.

(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)

But [when] her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas [and] dragged [them] into the marketplace before the rulers.

At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul. For this reason also he sent for him as often as possible [and] talked with him.

[By] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, [because they] followed the way of Balaam the [son of] Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.