Bible verses about "narcissism" | WPNT

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?

¹⁵ “Now if your brother sins against you, go, confront him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have won your brother. ¹⁶ But should he not hear, take along with you one or two more, so that every word may be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷ And should he refuse to hear them, tell it to the congregation. But should he refuse to hear even the congregation, let him be to you just like the heathen and the tax collector.

¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant.

⁴ And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

¹ My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you not sin; if someone does sin, we have an Advocate in the Father’s presence, righteous Jesus Christ— ² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world. ³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ He who says, “I have come to know Him”, yet doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar and the Truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps His Word, God’s love has truly been perfected in him: by this we know that we are in Him. ⁶ He who claims to be abiding in Him really needs to act just like He acted. ⁷ Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old one that you have had from the beginning; this old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now. ¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² Dear children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake ¹³ —fathers, I am writing to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I am writing to you because you have overcome the evil one; children, I am writing to you because you have come to know the Father— ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. ¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever. ¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us. ²⁰ You have an Anointing from the Holy One and understand all. ²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the Truth. ²² Who is the liar but the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father either. ²⁴ So you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you; if what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Father and in the Son. ²⁵ This is the promise that He Himself promised us—the eternal life. ²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you; ²⁷ but really, you don’t need anyone to teach you because the Anointing that you received from Him abides in you; further, as the same Anointing teaches you concerning all things, and it is true and no lie—well just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. ²⁸ And now, dear children, do abide in Him, so that whenever He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. ²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

¹ “Do not judge, so that you be not judged. ² Because with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. ³ So why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but do not consider the plank in your own eye? ⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’, when hey, there’s a plank in yours? ⁵ Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient and disqualified for any good work.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them. ¹⁸ Because such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. ¹⁹ I rejoice over you because your obedience has become known to all, but I want you to be wise as to what is good, yet innocent as to what is evil.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and acts of compassion, ² make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves. ⁴ Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for what concerns others. ⁵ In fact, let this mindset be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, existing in God’s form, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross! ⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father. ¹² So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed (not only in my presence but now much more in my absence), keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ because God Himself is the One at work in you, both to will and to produce, for His good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing. ¹⁷ Yes, even if I am a libation being poured on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. ¹⁸ For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice with me. ¹⁹ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be encouraged when I know how you are doing. ²⁰ For I have no one else like-minded, who will be genuinely concerned about your welfare ²¹ (for all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus). ²² But you know the proof of him, that as a son with his father he slaved with me for the Gospel. ²³ Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how things go with me. ²⁴ Still, I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon. ²⁵ However, I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier; also your messenger and minister to my need; ²⁶ since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. ²⁷ Well, he really was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ So I sent him the more eagerly, that upon seeing him you might have joy, and I be less anxious. ²⁹ Receive him in the Lord with great joy, and hold such men in honor, ³⁰ because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to complete what was lacking in your service toward me.

⁵ Similarly, you younger ones, submit to elders. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, submitting to one another, because ‘God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones’. ⁶ Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time;

¹ Now understand this: In the last days there will be grievous times; ² because people will be self-lovers, money lovers, boasters, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without family affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ wearing a form of godliness while having denied its power! You must avoid such people; ⁶ because they are the sort that press into households and ‘capture’ gullible women loaded down with sins, who are led along by various lusts, ⁷ always learning yet never being able to come to a real knowledge of truth.