12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

But those being in depravity are not able to please God.

but to those who are of self-seeking, and disobedient to the truth, but obedient to unrighteousness, there are indignation and wrath.

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

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

And the second is like unto it; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Whosoever may seek to save his soul shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it shall find it.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.