Selfishness

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Bible verses about “Selfishness”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Genesis 4:9And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
• Numbers 32:6And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
• Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
• Proverbs 11:26He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
• Proverbs 18:17He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
• Proverbs 24:11If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
• Proverbs 24:12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
• Proverbs 28:27He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
• Ezekiel 34:18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
• Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
• Haggai 1:4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
• Haggai 1:9Ye 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.
• Haggai 1:10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
• Zechariah 7:6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
• Malachi 1:10Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
• Matthew 19:21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
• Matthew 19:22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
• Luke 6:32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
• Luke 6:33And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
• Luke 6:34And 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.
• Romans 14:15But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
• Romans 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Romans 15:2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
• Romans 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
• 1 Corinthians 10:24Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
• 2 Corinthians 5:15And 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.
• Galatians 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
• Philippians 2:4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
• Philippians 2:20For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
• Philippians 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
• 2 Timothy 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• 2 Timothy 3:3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
• 2 Timothy 3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• James 2:15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
• James 2:16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
• 1 John 3:17But 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?