Bible verses about "selfishness" | Darby

⁹ Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.

³² And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them. ³³ And if ye do good to those that do good to you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? [for] even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.

¹ But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification. ³ For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

³⁵ I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we] ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

¹⁶ For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.

¹⁶ But of doing good and communicating [of your substance] be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

⁴ No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.

²¹ For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

² Bear one another`s burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the Christ.

¹ Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members? ² Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

⁴ Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil, ⁶ does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

³ [let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves; ⁴ regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own [advantage], but that of the other.

¹⁷ But whoso may have the world`s substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

² for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, ³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, ⁴ traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

⁴ regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.