Bible verses about "narcissism" | MNT

¹⁶ "By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles?

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother. ¹⁶ "But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church; ¹⁷ "but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

⁴ And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

¹ My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. ² And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. ³ This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. ⁴ He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar, ⁵ and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him. ⁶ By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his. ⁷ Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened. ⁸ Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. ⁹ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. ¹⁰ But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling. ¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² I am writing to you, little children, because you sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One. ¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever. ¹⁸ My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us. ²⁰ Now you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. ²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. ²⁴ If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal. ²⁶ I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray. ²⁷ As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do. ²⁸ And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. ²⁹ If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practices righteousness has been born of him.

¹ "Judge not, that you may be judged, yourselves; ² "for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you. ³ "And why do you look at the mote in your brother's eye, and fail to notice the beam which is in your own eye? ⁴ "Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye? ⁵ "Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him; in that they are detestable, disobedient, and reprobate for good work of any sort.

¹⁷ I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned. ¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

¹ If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity, ² I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose. ³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself. ⁴ Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained, ⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. ⁸ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross. ⁹ And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father. ¹² And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation; ¹³ for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed. ¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling and disputes, ¹⁵ that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing. ¹⁷ Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith, ¹⁸ I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me. ¹⁹ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare, ²¹ for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²² And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father. ²³ So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me; ²⁴ but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly. ²⁵ Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you; ²⁶ for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness. ²⁷ And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less. ²⁹ Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him; ³⁰ for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

⁵ You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble. ⁶ So humble yourselves under God's mighty hand, so that he may exalt you in due time.

¹ But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come. ² For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious, ³ without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal. ⁴ They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. ⁵ For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power. ⁶ Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins, ⁷ and led captive by ever-changing impulses, are always learning but never able to arrive at knowledge of truth.