29 Bible Verses about Selfishness

Can that faith save him? If a brother or a sister be naked, and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

Can that faith save him? If a brother or a sister be naked, and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

And it came to pass that a certain priest came down that way, and seeing him, passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

For all seek their own, not the things of Christ.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers,

Then Judas who had betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.

For though I am free from all men, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law: To them that are without the law, as without the law, (being not without the law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain them that are without the law. read more.
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that by all means I might save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker thereof with you.

My meat is, to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

For Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell upon me.

If ye fulfil the royal law (according to the Scripture) Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

On these two commandments

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not move them with their finger.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.

For all seek their own, not the things of Christ.

For as in one body we are many members, and all members have not the same office, So we being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of each other.

For as the body is one, and yet hath many members, but all the members of the body, many as they are, are one body, so is Christ. For we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or freemen; and we have all drank of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say, read more.
Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if all were one member, where were the body? Whereas now there are indeed many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Yea, the members of the body, which appear to be weaker, are much more necessary. And those which we think to be the less honourable parts of the body, these we surround with more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need; but God hath tempered the body together, giving more abundant honour to that which lacked: That there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care for each other: And whether one member suffer, all the members might suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members might rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in part.

Let no one seek his own, but every one another's welfare.

Look not every one at his own things, but every one also at the things of others.

in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the others.

For all seek their own, not the things of Christ.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, while we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

Doth not behave indecently, seeketh not her own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth:

But know this, that in the last days grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers,

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers,

And he said to her, What wilt thou? She saith to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right-hand, and the other on thy left in thy kingdom.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Therefore we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

They said to him, Grant us to sit one on thy right-hand, and one on thy left-hand in thy glory.

They said to him, Grant us to sit one on thy right-hand, and one on thy left-hand in thy glory.