Bible verses about "selfishness" | Worrell

³² "And, if ye love those who love you, what charm have you? for even the sinners love those who love them. ³³ "And, if ye do good to those who do good to you, what charm have you? even the sinners do the same. ³⁴ "And, if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what charm have you? even the sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back as much.

¹ Now we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification; ³ for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me."

³⁵ In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help 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 there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

¹⁶ But, of well-doing, and contributing, 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, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

²¹ for all are seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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

¹ Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up, ⁵ behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil, ⁶ rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

³ doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself; ⁴ not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each another's good.

¹⁷ But whosoever possesses the goods of the world, and beholds his brother having need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

² for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

⁴ not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others.