Bible Verses about Selfishness

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• Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.
  Philippians 2:3humilityneighbor
• Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.
  1 Corinthians 10:24loveneighbor
• Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
  James 3:16sinevil
• The generous will prosper;
  those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
  Proverbs 11:25generosityfoodgiving
• Fools have no interest in understanding;
  they only want to air their own opinions.
  Proverbs 18:2speakingwisdom
• We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord.
  Romans 15:2encouragementneighbor
• The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.
  Mark 12:31lawloveneighbor
• Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.
  1 Corinthians 3:18wisdomworldthoughts
• Give me an eagerness for your laws
  rather than a love for money!
  Psalm 119:36lawgreedheart
• My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  Galatians 2:20faithSaviorlife
• But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
  Acts 20:24graceevangelismlife
• Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.”
  Mark 8:34salvationJesusfollowing