12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.