Bible Verses About Selfishness: General references

The LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of Hosts, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Yeshua said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Messiah died.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

For even Messiah didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.