12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But to those who are self-seeking, and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness -- wrath and anger,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.