Bible Verses About Selfishness: General references

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where is Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper--I?'

And Moses saith to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, `Do your brethren go in to the battle, and ye--do ye sit here?

My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.

Righteous is the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.

If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back.

When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

Is it a little thing for you--the good pasture ye enjoy, And the remnant of your pasture ye tread down with your feet, And a depth of waters ye do drink, And the remainder with your feet ye trample,

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

Is it time for you--you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? --an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running--each to his house,

Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months --even these seventy years--did ye keep the fast to Me--Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'

And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same;

and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners--that they may receive again as much.

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

let no one seek his own--but each another's.