Bible verses about "selfishness" | Haweis

³² And if ye love them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if ye do good to them who do good to you, what thanks have ye? do not even sinners the same thing? ³⁴ And if ye lend to those, from whom ye hope to receive back again, what thanks are due to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive an equivalent.

¹ WE then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are feeble, and not to gratify ourselves. ² Let every one of us gratify his neighbour in that which is good for his edification. ³ For even Christ gratified not himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

¹⁶ For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

¹⁶ But of beneficence, and liberal distribution, be not unmindful: for such sacrifices God accepts with delight.

²⁶ Let us not be vain-glorious, irritating one another, envying one another.

⁴ No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him.

²¹ For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

¹ FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members? ² Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.

⁴ Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], ⁵ doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth;

³ Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves. ⁴ Let not each aim at their own particular interests, but every man at those of others.

²⁴ Let no man seek his own gratification, but every one another's good.

¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness, ⁴ treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

⁴ Let not each aim at their own particular interests, but every man at those of others.