Bible Verses about Selfishness

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• Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
  Philippians 2:3 humility neighbor
• Do not seek your own advantage but that of the other.
  1 Corinthians 10:24 love neighbor
• Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5 love patience anger
• For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.
  James 3:16 sin evil
• A generous person will be enriched,
  and one who gives water will get water.
  Proverbs 11:25 generosity food giving
• A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
  but only in expressing personal opinion.
  Proverbs 18:2 speaking wisdom
• Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
  Romans 15:2 encouragement neighbor
• The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
  Mark 12:31 law love neighbor
• Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.
  1 Corinthians 3:18 wisdom world thoughts
• Turn my heart to your decrees
  and not to selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36 law greed heart
• And it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  Galatians 2:20 faith Savior life
• But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  Acts 20:24 grace evangelism life
• He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
  Mark 8:34 salvation Jesus following