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.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.”
“But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?”
“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”
“If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.”
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.”
“but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,”
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.”
“If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.”
“But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
“Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”
“Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.”
“For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.”
“Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.”
“For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."”