12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth. That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animal, devilish.

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

They who are earthly cannot please God.

While as to those who are factious, and disobedient to Truth but obedient to Evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,

For, where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of base actions.

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as of more account than himself,

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it.

The end of such men is Ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things.