Nave’s Topical Bible
Unselfishness
37 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Romans 12:10; Romans 15:1-3; 1 Corinthians 9:19-23; 1 Corinthians 10:24,33; 1 Corinthians 13:4-5; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Philippians 2:3-4; James 2:8
- INSTANCES OF
- Abraham
- King of Sodom
- The children of Heth
- Judah
- Moses
- Gideon
- Saul
- Jonathan
- David
1 Samuel 24:17; 2 Samuel 15:19-20; 2 Samuel 23:16-17; 1 Chronicles 21:17; Psalms 69:6
- Araunah
- Nehemiah
- Jews
- Daniel
- Jonah
- Joseph
- The disciples
- Priscilla and Aquila
- Paul
1 Corinthians 10:33; Philippians 1:18; Philippians 4:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:8
- Philemon
See CHARITABLENESS
See FELLOWSHIP
See FRATERNITY
See SELFISHNESS
Bible verses about “Unselfishness”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Romans 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
- 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 9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
- 1 Corinthians 9:20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
- 1 Corinthians 9:21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
- 1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
- 1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
- 1 Corinthians 10:24Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
- 1 Corinthians 10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Corinthians 13:5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- 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.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
- Philippians 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- Philippians 2:4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
- James 2:8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- Genesis 13:9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- Genesis 14:23That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
- Genesis 14:24Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
- Genesis 14:21And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
- Genesis 23:6Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Genesis 23:11Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
- Genesis 44:33Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
- Genesis 44:34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
- Numbers 11:29And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
- Numbers 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
- Numbers 14:13And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
- Numbers 14:14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
- Numbers 14:16Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
- Numbers 14:18The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
- Numbers 14:19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
- Judges 8:22Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
- Judges 8:23And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you.
- 1 Samuel 11:12And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
- 1 Samuel 11:13And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel.