9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Bible verses about "selfishness" | KJV
Haggai 1:9
Luke 6:32-34
32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Romans 15:1-3
Acts 20:35
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
James 3:16
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Hebrews 13:16
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Galatians 5:26
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
2 Timothy 2:4
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Philippians 2:21
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Galatians 6:2
2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
James 4:1-2
1 Corinthians 13:4-6
Philippians 2:3-4
1 Corinthians 10:24
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
1 John 3:17
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
2 Timothy 3:2-4
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Philippians 2:4
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.