Sin & Temptation
Bible Verses About selfishness
14 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about selfishness? Browse 14 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Philippians 2:4 |
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| King James (KJV) | “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” |
14 Key Scriptures
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“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?”
1 John 3:17KJV
“Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.”
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. confusion: Gr. tumult or unquietness”
James 3:16KJV
“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.”
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures”
James 4:1KJV
“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”
Romans 15:1KJV
“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
“For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”
Luke 6:32KJV
“But unto them that are contentious , and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”
Romans 2:8KJV
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