Bible Verses About Selfishness

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”

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.

Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

so we, who are many, are one body in Messiah, and individually members one of another.

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.”

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

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

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Messiah.

For in one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.