SELFISHNESS

Passages on this topic · 36

• Genesis 4:9

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

• Numbers 32:6

  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?

• Psalms 38:11

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

• Proverbs 11:26

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

• Proverbs 18:17

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

• Proverbs 24:11

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

• Proverbs 24:12

  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?

• Proverbs 28:27

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

• Ezekiel 34:18

  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?

• Micah 3:11

  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 Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Haggai 1:4

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

• Haggai 1:9

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

• Haggai 1:10

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

• Zechariah 7:6

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

• Malachi 1:10

  “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 Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus 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.”

• Matthew 19:22

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

• Luke 6:32

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

• Luke 6:33

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

• Luke 6:34

  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.

• Romans 14:15

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

• Romans 15:1

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

• Romans 15:2

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

• Romans 15:3

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:24

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

• 2 Corinthians 5:15

  He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

• Galatians 6:2

  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

• Philippians 2:4

  each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

• Philippians 2:20

  For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

• Philippians 2:21

  For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• James 2:15

  And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

• James 2:16

  and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?