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Bible Verses about Selfishness

  • Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves.
  • No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
  • 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.
  • For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
  • A generous person will be enriched;
    he who refreshes others will also be refreshed.
  • A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
    but only delights in expressing his own opinions.
  • Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
  • The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
  • 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.
  • Dispose my heart to follow your statutes
    and to flee selfish gain.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.”