12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from long ago their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it 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 in humility consider others better than yourselves.

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

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

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.