Bible Verses About Selfishness

And if the ear says, “I’m not an eye, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If it were all hearing, how could it smell?

But as it is, God arranged each of the parts in the body exactly as he wanted them.

Now if they were all just one part, where would the body be?

But as it is, there are indeed many parts, yet just one body.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you”; or the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.”

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be less important turn out to be all the more necessary;

and upon body parts which we consider less dignified we bestow greater dignity; and the parts that aren’t attractive are the ones we make as attractive as we can,

while our attractive parts have no need for such treatment. Indeed, God has put the body together in such a way that he gives greater dignity to the parts that lack it,

So that there will be no disagreements within the body, but rather all the parts will be equally concerned for all the others.

Thus if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; and if one part is honored, all the parts share its happiness.

Now you together constitute the body of the Messiah, and individually you are parts of it.

not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.

For the Messiah’s love has hold of us, because we are convinced that one man died on behalf of all mankind (which implies that all mankind was already dead),

and that he died on behalf of all in order that those who live should not live any longer for themselves but for the one who on their behalf died and was raised.

For you know how generous our Lord Yeshua the Messiah was — for your sakes he impoverished himself, even though he was rich, so that he might make you rich by means of his poverty.

Bear one another’s burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah’s true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.

Indeed, we all once lived this way — we followed the passions of our old nature and obeyed the wishes of our old nature and our own thoughts. In our natural condition we were headed for God’s wrath, just like everyone else.

look out for each other’s interests and not just for your own.

I have no one who compares with him, who will care so sincerely for your welfare —

people all put their own interests ahead of the Messiah Yeshua’s.

Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times.

People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good,

traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God,