12 Bible Verses about Social Selfishness
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He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,
But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Is it too slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
Israel is a luxuriant vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he made;
The richer his land,
The better he made the sacred pillars.
“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself rich with loans?’
When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’
Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!”
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
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Social selfishness » Different forms of » Total disregard of the rights of others
Is it too
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he
The
The better
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘
For how long—
And makes himself
When you eat and drink,
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Heartless indifference toward sinners
But
For men will be
Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? See to that yourself!"
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Hoarding foodstuff
But
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Neglect of the needy and suffering
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Greed for real estate
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
