Bible Verses About Being Selfish
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being selfish, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,949 votes, led by Philippians 2:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Selfish
Philippians 2:3581 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
James 3:14-16534 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
2 Timothy 3:1-5515 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Philippians 2:3-4349 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
2 Corinthians 9:7263 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Ephesians 4:29-32209 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
James 2:14-17185 votes
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Psalms 119:36184 votes
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
John 15:13171 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Luke 16:13160 votes
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Proverbs 18:1155 votes
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13135 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Matthew 20:28121 votes
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
1 Timothy 5:6110 votes
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Matthew 5:16103 votes
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Romans 15:1-285 votes
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 10:3179 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Psalms 1:1-674 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
John 3:3067 votes
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Ephesians 5:2562 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
James 3:1660 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
1 Corinthians 10:2459 votes
Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
Galatians 5:19-2158 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 13:550 votes
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1 Corinthians 6:19-2047 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
What does the Bible say about being selfish?
Readers most often cite Philippians 2:3 on the subject of being selfish. Across 5,949 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 3:14-16, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Philippians 2:3-4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.