48 Bible Verses about Love, Abuse Of

Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors. Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.

For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.

For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.

For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

Let us stop being ambitious for honors, so challenging one another, envying one another.

But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth. This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.

And He asked her, "What do you want?" She answered Him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right and one at your left in your kingdom."

and they like the places of honor at feasts and the front seats in synagogues, to be greeted with honor in public places, and to have men call them 'Teacher.'

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and love to be saluted with honor in public places, to be seated in the front seats in the synagogues, and to occupy the places of honor at banquets --

When He noticed how the guests were picking out the best places, He told them the following story:

There arose also among them a contention as to which one of them should rank as greatest.

for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.

the one who keeps up his opposition and so far exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, that he actually takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life? For what price can a man give to buy back life?

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

Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth;

No soldier ever allows himself to be involved in the business affairs of life, so that he may please the officer who enlisted him.

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

For just as in the days before the Flood people went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

But they all in the same attitude began to excuse themselves. The first one said, 'I have just bought a piece of land and I must go and look it over. Please excuse me.'

for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin. For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.

And then He said to them, "Be ever on the alert and always on your guard against every form of greed, because a man's life does not consist in his possessions, even though they are abundant."

And when the young man heard that, he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

But his countenance fell at that command, and he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

But when he heard that, he was very sad, for he was surpassingly rich.

and said, "What will you give me to turn Him over to you?" Then they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.

But as the owners saw that the hope of their profit-making was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square, before the authorities,

At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.

They have left the straight road and gone astray. They have followed the road that Balaam, the son of Beor, trod, who fell in love with the profits of wrongdoing

so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.