Bible Verses About Selfishness

Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.

And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them.

And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also do this.

And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? For sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much.

Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled.

For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office:

So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members one of another:

For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ.

For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

For the body also is not one member, but many.

If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the Body?