UNSELFISHNESS

Passages on this topic · 71

• Genesis 13:9

  Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

• Genesis 14:21

  The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

• Genesis 14:24

  I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

• Genesis 23:6

  “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

• Genesis 44:33

  Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

• Genesis 44:34

  For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me? — lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

• Numbers 11:29

  Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

• Numbers 14:12

  I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

• Numbers 14:13

  Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.

• Numbers 14:14

  They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

• Numbers 14:15

  Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

• Numbers 14:16

  ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

• Numbers 14:17

  Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

• Numbers 14:18

  ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

• Numbers 14:19

  Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

• Judges 8:22

  Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 8:23

  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:12

  The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

• 1 Samuel 11:13

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 23:17

  He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 24:17

  He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

• 2 Samuel 15:19

  Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

• 2 Samuel 15:20

  Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 23:17

  He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

• 2 Samuel 24:22

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

• 2 Samuel 24:23

  All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17

  David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

• Nehemiah 5:14

  Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

• Nehemiah 5:16

  Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

• Nehemiah 5:17

  Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

• Esther 9:15

  The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

• Psalms 69:6

  Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

• Daniel 5:17

  Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

• Jonah 1:12

  He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”

• Jonah 1:13

  Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

• Matthew 1:19

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Acts 4:34

  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

• Acts 4:35

  and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

• Romans 12:10

  In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

• 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.”

• Romans 16:3

  Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

• Romans 16:4

  who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

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

• 1 Corinthians 9:20

  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;

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

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

• 1 Corinthians 9:22

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 9:23

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:24

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 1 Corinthians 13:5

  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

• 2 Corinthians 5:14

  For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

• 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.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9

  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

• Philippians 1:18

  What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

• Philippians 2:3

  doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

• Philippians 2:4

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

• Philippians 4:17

  Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:8

  neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

• Philemon 1:13

  whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

• Philemon 1:14

  But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

• James 2:8

  However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.