Bible verses about "selfishness" | Murdock

³² For, if ye love them that love you, what goodness is it in you? For even sinners love those that love them. ³³ And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what goodness is it in you? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend to one from whom ye expect recompense, what goodness is it in you? For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive adequate recompense.

¹ We then who are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification. ³ Because Messiah also did not please himself; but, as it is written: The reviling of thy revilers fell upon me.

³⁵ And I have showed you all things; that thus it is a duty to labor, and to care for the infirm, and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus; for he hath said, That he is more blessed who giveth, than he who receiveth.

¹⁶ For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong.

¹⁶ And forget not commiseration and communication with the poor; for with such sacrifices a man pleaseth God.

²⁶ And let us not be vain-glorious, despising one another, and envying one another.

⁴ No man, on becoming a soldier, entangleth himself with the business of the world; that he may please him who enlisted him.

²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus the Messiah.

² And bear ye one another's burdens, that so ye may fulfill the law of the Messiah.

¹ Whence is it, that there are among you fightings and broils? Is it not from the lusts, which war in your members? ² Ye covet, and possess not; and ye kill, and envy, and effect nothing: and ye fight and make attacks; and ye have not, because ye ask not.

⁴ Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not envious; love is not boisterous; and is not inflated; ⁵ and doth nothing that causeth shame; and seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

³ And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself. ⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own things, but also the things of his fellow-man.

¹⁷ But whoever hath worldly possessions, and seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his bowels from him, how is the love of God in him?

² and men will be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, boasters, proud, censorious, unyielding towards their own people, denyers of grace, wicked, ³ calumniators, addicted to concupiscence, ferocious, haters of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God,

⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.