23 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself

Then said they unto him, "What art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thy self?"

Brethren, if any man be fallen by chance into any fault, ye which are spiritual, help to amend him, in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?

"And Aaron shall offer the ox for his sin offering and make an atonement for him and for his house.

And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sin offering, and reconcile for himself and for his household, and kill him.

"And there shall be nobody in the tabernacle of witness, when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out again. And he shall make an atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the multitude of Israel.

And let him wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his own raiment, and then come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people;

If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.

of such an ungodly person as thou, and of the son of man that is righteous - as thou pretendest to be?

For he standeth thus in his own conceit: "This do I, through the power of my own hand, and through my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that removes the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and like one of the worthies I drive them from their high seats.

As for me, I am full of strength, and of the spirit of the LORD; full of judgment and boldness, to show the house of Jacob their wickedness, and the house of Israel their sin.

Ye know well that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

Whether it were I or they, so have we preached, and so have ye believed.

Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.

If I go wrong, I go wrong to myself.

And every man went unto his own city, there to be taxed.

Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

"Hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to pluck out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Their own destruction and misery shall they see with their eyes, and drink of the fearful wrath of the Almighty.

Thy ways and thy thoughts have brought thee unto this. This is thy own wickedness and disobedience, that hath possessed thine heart.

Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?

his own hands shall bring the offering of the LORD; even the fat upon the breast he shall bring with the breast to wave it a wave offering before the LORD.

But my counsel is, that all Israel be gathered unto thee, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand of the sea in number, and that thou go to battle in thine own person.