67 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. Do not let each man look upon his own things, but each man also on the things of others.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it.

For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel's, he shall save it.

For whoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for My sake, he shall save it.

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

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

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

Let no one seek his own, but each one another's.

Let us not become glory-seeking, provoking one another, envying one another.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;

A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Do not put yourself forth in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of the great; for it is better that it should be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put lower in the presence of a noble whom your eyes have seen.

And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted.

For whoever exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

And it happened after this, Absalom prepared himself chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him.

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

For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.

Why have I seen that they are afraid, turned backward? And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled for refuge, and they do not look back. Terror is all around, says Jehovah.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;

And He said to her, What do you desire? She said to Him, Grant that these my two sons may sit in Your kingdom, the one on Your right hand and the other on the left.

And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the market-places, and to be called, Rabbi! Rabbi! by men.

Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;

And He put forth a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose out the chief places, saying to them,

And there was also a dispute among them as to which of them seems to be greater.

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

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Be mindful of things above, not on things on the earth.

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the 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 all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, I must go and see it. I beg you, have me excused.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

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

And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, I coveted them and took them. And behold, they are hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.

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

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.

And he was sad at that saying and went away grieved, for he had great possessions.

And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

And he said to them, What will you give me, and I will betray Him to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

And being money-lovers, all the Pharisees also heard all these things. And they derided Him.

He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put in.

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gain went out, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged them to the market before the rulers.

He also hoped that silver would be given him by Paul, that he might free him. Therefore he also frequently sent for him and talked with him.

who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.

How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked;

He who loves fighting loves transgression; he who makes his gate high seeks ruin.