Bible verses about "unselfishness" | Whiston

⁶ Blessed [are] they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled,

¹³ Greater love hath no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

¹ From whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [are they] not hence, of your lusts, that war in your members?

¹⁶ Confess therefore [your] sins one to another, pray one for another, that ye may be healed: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

¹ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with 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 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, the truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. ⁶ He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked. ⁷ Beloved, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old cmmandment is the word which ye have heard. ⁸ Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in us: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. ⁹ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. ¹² I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ¹³ I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. ¹⁴ I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. ¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of God 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 pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, ¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and its lust: but he that doeth the will of God, abideth for ever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. ²⁰ But ye have an unction from the holy One, and ye know all things. ²¹ I have not written unto you, because ye know not the truth: but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? he is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. ²³ Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father; He that acknowledged the Son, hath the Father also. ²⁴ Let that abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning, shall abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he hath promised us, eternal life. ²⁶ These things have I written unto you, concerning them that seduce you. ²⁷ But the anointing which ye have received of him, abideth in you: and ye need not that any man teach you: But, as the same anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is truth, and is no lie: as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. ²⁸ And now, little children, abide in him; that if he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. ²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness, is born of him.

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another; with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.

⁴ Looking, not every man on his own things, but evey man on the things of others.