Bible Verses about Selfishness

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• Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
  Philippians 2:3humilityneighbor
• Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other.
  1 Corinthians 10:24loveneighbor
• 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 or resentful.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceanger
• For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.
  James 3:16sinevil
• A generous person will be enriched,
  and one who gives water will get water.
  Proverbs 11:25generosityfoodgiving
• Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
  Romans 15:2encouragementneighbor
• A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
  but only in expressing personal opinion.
  Proverbs 18:2speakingwisdom
• The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
  Mark 12:31lawloveneighbor
• 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 3:18wisdomworldthoughts
• Turn my heart to your decrees,
  and not to selfish gain.
  Psalm 119:36lawgreedheart
• 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 faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  Galatians 2:20faithSaviorlife
• 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 20:24graceevangelismlife
• He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
  Mark 8:34salvationJesusfollowing