Bible Verses about “selfishness”
The Bible contains 23 verses about selfishness 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;”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”
“Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,”
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
“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?”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”
“‹And if ye lend› [to them] ‹of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.›”
“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”
“‹For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.›”
“‹And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.›”
“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
“¶ 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.”
“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.”
“Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].”
“For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.”