Bible Verses about Selfishness

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• Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves.
  Philippians 2:3humilityneighbor
• No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
  1 Corinthians 10:24loveneighbor
• Love is patient;
  love is charitable.
  Love is not envious;
  it does not have an inflated opinion of itself;
  it is not filled with its own importance.
  Love is never rude;
  it does not seek its own advantage.
  It is not prone to anger;
  neither does it brood over setbacks.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
  James 3:16sinevil
• A generous person will be enriched;
  he who refreshes others will also be refreshed.
  Proverbs 11:25generosityfoodgiving
• A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
  but only delights in expressing his own opinions.
  Proverbs 18:2speakingwisdom
• Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
  Romans 15:2encouragementneighbor
• The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
  Mark 12:31lawloveneighbor
• Let no one delude himself. If anyone among you considers himself to be wise by worldly standards, he must become a fool in order to be truly wise.
  1 Corinthians 3:18wisdomworldthoughts
• Dispose my heart to follow your statutes
  and to flee selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawgreedheart
• And now it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. The life I live now in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
  Galatians 2:20faithSaviorlife
• As for me, I do not regard my life as of any value, only that I finish the race and complete the mission that I received from the Lord Jesus—to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.
  Acts 20:24graceevangelismlife
• He then called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, “Anyone who wishes to follow me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
  Mark 8:34salvationJesusfollowing