10 Bible Verses about Selfishness, Shown In

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.

Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

And he said to her, What do thou want? She says to him, Speak that these my two sons may sit, one at thy right hand and one at thy left hand in thy kingdom.

And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.