12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.

For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.

And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

But to those who are of a contentious spirit, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath;

For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

And the second, like it, is this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is no greater commandment than these.

Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

Whosoever seeketh to preserve his life shall lose it; and whosoever would lose it, shall preserve it.

whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.