10 Bible Verses about Selfishness, Shown In
Most Relevant Verses
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.
just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved.
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These dogs have fierce appetites;
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.
“What do you want?” He asked her.
“Promise,” she said to Him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right and the other on Your left, in Your kingdom.”
And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?
“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe,
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord among us?
No disaster will overtake us.”
