Bible Verses About Unselfishness: General references

Be affectioned to loue one another with brotherly loue. In giuing honour, goe one before another,

We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, and not to please our selues.

Therefore let euery man please his neighbour in that that is good to edification.

For Christ also would not please himselfe, but as it is written, The rebukes of them which rebuke thee, fell on me.

For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

And vnto the Iewes, I become as a Iewe, that I may winne the Iewes: to them that are vnder the Lawe, as though I were vnder the Lawe, that I may winne them that are vnder the Lawe:

To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Let no man seeke his owne, but euery man anothers wealth.

Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

For that loue of Christ constraineth vs,

Because we thus iudge, that if one be dead for all, then were all dead, and he died for all, that they which liue, shoulde not henceforth liue vnto themselues, but vnto him which died for them, and rose againe.

For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich.

That nothing be done through contention or vaine glory, but that in meekenesse of minde euery man esteeme other better then himselfe.

Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man also on the things of other men.

But if yee fulfill the royall Lawe according to the Scripture, which saith, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe, yee doe well.