Selfishness: General Scriptures Concerning
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Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Numbers 32:6
But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
Psalm 38:11
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
Proverbs 11:26
The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
Proverbs 18:17
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
Proverbs 24:11, 12
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. / If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
Proverbs 28:27
Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.
Ezekiel 34:18
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
Haggai 1:4, 9, 10
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” / You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. / Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
Zechariah 7:6
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
Malachi 1:10
“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
Matthew 19:21, 22
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.” / When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
Luke 6:32–34
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. / If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. / And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.
Romans 14:15
If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
Romans 15:1–3
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. / Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. / For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
1 Corinthians 10:24
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
Galatians 6:2
Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Philippians 2:4, 20, 21
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. / I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs. / For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 3:2–4
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, / traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
James 2:15, 16
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. / If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
1 John 3:17
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?