Bible Verses about “selfish people”
The Bible contains 29 verses about selfish people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.”
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”
“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.”
“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.”
“¶ If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,”
“¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”
“Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification.”
“¶ Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.”
“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.”
“¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”
“Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.”
“Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”
“[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.”
“Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.”