Top 25 Bible Verses About Selfishness (KJV)

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. 33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. 34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.