Bible verses about "selfishness" | Williams

³² Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them. ³³ And if you practice doing good only to those who do good to you, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice the same. ³⁴ And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full.

¹ It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. ² Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good. ³ Christ certainly did not please Himself; instead, as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me."

³⁵ In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'"

¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and all sorts of evil practices.

¹⁶ And stop neglecting to do good and to be generous, for God is highly pleased with just such sacrifices as these.

²⁶ Let us stop being ambitious for honors, so challenging one another, envying one another.

⁴ No soldier ever allows himself to be involved in the business affairs of life, so that he may please the officer who enlisted him.

²¹ for most people are looking out for their own interests, not for the interests of Jesus Christ.

² Practice bearing one another's burdens, and in this way carry out the law of Christ.

¹ What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. ² You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.

⁴ Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride; ⁵ It does not act with rudeness, or insist upon its rights; it never gets provoked, it never harbors evil thoughts; ⁶ Is never glad when wrong is done, but always glad when truth prevails;

³ Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors. ⁴ Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.

²⁴ No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

¹⁷ But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

² For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,

⁴ Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.