12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!

For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

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

doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;

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

Whosoever shall seek to gain his soul shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose it, will preserve it.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who are thinking of earthly things.