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 is not the wisdom that 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 talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

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

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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

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

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; 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 rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

For 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 preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.

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