Bible verses about "selfish" | Coverdale

¹ And he loked vp, and behelde ye riche, how they put in their offerynges in to the Gods chest. ² He sawe also a poore wedowe, which put in two mytes, ³ and he sayde: Verely I saye vnto you: This poore wedowe hath put in more the they all: ⁴ For these all haue of their excesse put in vnto the offerynge of God, but she of hir pouerte hath put in all hir lyuynge that she had.

³ For I saye thorow the grace yt is geue me, vnto euery man amonge you: that no man esteme off him selfe more, then it becometh him to esteme: but that he discretly iudge of himselfe, acordinge as God hath dealte vnto euery man the measure of faith.

⁸ But vnto them that are contencious & not obedient vnto the trueth, but obeye vnrighteousnes, shal come indignacion and wrath,

¹⁰ Be kynde one to another with brotherly loue. In geuynge honoure go one before another.

¹⁷ Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:) ¹⁸ That they do good: that they be rich in good workes: that they geue and distribute with a good wyll: ¹⁹ gatherynge vp treasure for them selues, a good foundacion, agaynst ye tyme to come, that they maye laye honde on eternall life.

² For there shalbe me which shal holde of the selues, couetous, boasters, proude, cursed speakers, dishobedient to their elders, vnthankfull, vngoostly,

³⁵ I haue shewed you all thinges, how that so labouringe ye oughte to receaue the weake, and to remembre the worde of the LORDE, how that he sayde: It is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.

²⁴ Let noman seke his awne profit, but let euery man seke anothers welth.

³ that there be nothinge done thorow stryfe and vayne glory, but that thorow mekenesse of mynde euery man esteme another better then himselfe: ⁴ and let euery ma loke not for his awne profet, but for the profet of other.