12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

And they being in the flesh cannot please God.

But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,

For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these.

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Whoever should seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose it, shall preserve it alive.

Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)