Bible Verses About Selfishness

and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

and if all were one member, where the body?

and now, indeed, are many members, and one body;

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor--being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,