Bible verses about "selflessness" | Moffatt

¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

²⁹ Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them. ³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice; ³² be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life; ¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous, ¹⁹ amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

⁵ for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, ⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

¹⁵ see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that. ¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

⁴ and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own.