12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber.

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, anger and wrath,

For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these.

doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

Whoever will seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life, shall save it.

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