Bible Verses About Selfishness

He said to her, "What do you want?" She replied, "Promise that when you become king, these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left."

And a second is similar to it, `You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'

They replied, "When you are in your glory, let us sit with you, one on your right and the other on your left."

What credit is it to you if you love only those who love you? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

What credit is it to you if you do good only to those who do good to you? Even sinners do that.

What credit is it to you if you lend only to those who you expect will pay you back? Even sinners lend to each other, expecting to be repaid in full.

Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.

Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed! I tell you, you’re not looking for me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the bread and had all you wanted!

For just as there are many parts that compose one body, but the parts don’t all have the same function;

so there are many of us, and in union with the Messiah we comprise one body, with each of us belonging to the others.

and if your brother is being upset by the food you eat, your life is no longer one of love. Do not, by your eating habits, destroy someone for whom the Messiah died!

So we who are strong have a duty to bear the weaknesses of those who are not strong, rather than please ourselves.

Each of us should please his neighbor and act for his good, thus building him up.

For even the Messiah did not please himself; rather, as the Tanakh says, ‘The insults of those insulting you fell on me.’

For although I am a free man, not bound to do anyone’s bidding, I have made myself a slave to all in order to win as many people as possible.

That is, with Jews, what I did was put myself in the position of a Jew, in order to win Jews. With people in subjection to a legalistic perversion of the Torah, I put myself in the position of someone under such legalism, in order to win those under this legalism, even though I myself am not in subjection to a legalistic perversion of the Torah.

With those who live outside the framework of Torah, I put myself in the position of someone outside the Torah in order to win those outside the Torah — although I myself am not outside the framework of God’s Torah but within the framework of Torah as upheld by the Messiah.

With the “weak” I became “weak,” in order to win the “weak.” With all kinds of people I have become all kinds of things, so that in all kinds of circumstances I might save at least some of them.

But I do it all because of the rewards promised by the Good News, so that I may share in them along with the others who come to trust.

No one should be looking out for his own interests, but for those of his fellow.

Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;

For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.

For it was by one Spirit that we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

For indeed the body is not one part but many.

If the foot says, “I’m not a hand, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.