Bible Verses of Selfishness

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.

Psalms 119:37

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

Psalms 119:36

it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes

Proverbs 25:7

Do not exalt yourself in the king`s presence, and do not claim a place among his great men;

Proverbs 25:6

for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Proverbs 24:20

Do not fret because of evildoers or be envious of the wicked,

Proverbs 24:19

The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

Proverbs 24:9

Whoever plots evil will be known as a schemer.

Proverbs 24:8

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

Proverbs 24:2

Do not envy the wicked, do not desire their company;

Proverbs 24:1

for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Proverbs 23:21

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,

Proverbs 23:20

You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

Proverbs 23:8

for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 23:7

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;

Proverbs 23:6

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 23:5

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Proverbs 23:3

and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.

Proverbs 23:2

When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you,

Proverbs 23:1

if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

Proverbs 22:27

Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Proverbs 22:26

One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.

Proverbs 18:1

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

Philippians 3:19

For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:21

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,

Philippians 2:3

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

Micah 2:2

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning`s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

Micah 2:1

For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.

Matthew 27:18

“Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

Job 15:27

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn`t do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:17

As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

James 4:16

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

James 4:3

You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

James 4:2

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don`t they come from your desires that battle within you?

James 4:1

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 3:16

Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

James 3:15

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

James 3:14

The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

Isaiah 39:4

Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.”

Isaiah 39:3

Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

Isaiah 39:2

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

2 Corinthians 12:20

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:5

Anyone who is hungry should eat something at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment. And when I come I will give further directions.

1 Corinthians 11:34

So then, my brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, you should all eat together.

1 Corinthians 11:33

Don`t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!

1 Corinthians 11:22