12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't 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 don't serve our Lord, Jesus 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 doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

The second is like 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.