Top 25 Bible Verses About Selfishness (NIV)

⁴ Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--

¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

²⁴ Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. ⁴ Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

²¹ For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

² Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.

¹ We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. ² Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. ³ For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

³² "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full.

⁹ "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house.

⁸ But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer.

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. ¹⁸ Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. ¹⁹ In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

¹³ If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.

³⁵ In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

²⁷ He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.

²³ Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹³ When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; ¹⁴ but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

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