Bible Verses About Selfishness

and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit--these my two sons--one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'

and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

and they said to him, `Grant to us that, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, we may sit in thy glory;'

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.

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

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;'

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

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

to those without law, as without law--(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) --that I might gain those without law;

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

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

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

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

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

for also the body is not one member, but many;

if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;