Bible Verses About Selfish People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for selfish people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,524 votes, led by 2 Timothy 3:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Selfish People
2 Timothy 3:2151 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
James 3:16-17126 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Psalms 119:36116 votes
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
James 3:13-1591 votes
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Romans 2:882 votes
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Romans 15:1-278 votes
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 13:4-576 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Philippians 2:1-474 votes
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Proverbs 18:170 votes
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
James 3:1670 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Philippians 2:2160 votes
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
Galatians 5:19-2557 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Isaiah 56:1147 votes
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Proverbs 30:1243 votes
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
1 Corinthians 10:3332 votes
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Leviticus 19:1830 votes
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Genesis 4:1-2629 votes
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
John 3:16-1725 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Corinthians 5:1524 votes
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Jeremiah 45:523 votes
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Luke 1:1-8023 votes
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
Ephesians 2:322 votes
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
2 Timothy 3:1-520 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Philippians 2:418 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Philippians 2:7-916 votes
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
What does the Bible say about selfish people?
Readers most often cite 2 Timothy 3:2 on the subject of selfish people. Across 1,524 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 3:16-17, Psalms 119:36, James 3:13-15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.