12 Bible Verses about Social Selfishness

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?

Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!"

And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."

The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.