Top 25 Bible Verses About Selfishness (ESV)

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

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

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

15:1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

9 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

13   Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
    will himself call out and not be answered.

35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

27   Whoever gives to the poor will not want,
    but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

12   Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?
    There is more hope for a fool than for him.