12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: there is no other commandment greater than these.

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death:

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

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