Bible Verses About Selfishness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for selfishness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,057 votes, led by Philippians 2:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Selfishness
Philippians 2:41,031 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
2 Timothy 3:2-4693 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
1 John 3:17668 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1 Corinthians 10:24645 votes
Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
Philippians 2:3-4532 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
James 3:16361 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Philippians 2:21330 votes
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
1 Corinthians 13:4-6325 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 6:2295 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
James 4:1-2256 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Romans 15:1-3220 votes
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Hebrews 13:16217 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Luke 6:32-34199 votes
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Romans 2:8195 votes
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Haggai 1:9179 votes
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Galatians 5:26178 votes
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
2 Timothy 2:4150 votes
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Psalms 119:36146 votes
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Acts 20:35142 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1 Timothy 6:17-19135 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Proverbs 28:27129 votes
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs 21:13121 votes
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
2 Corinthians 5:15117 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.
Proverbs 18:1114 votes
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Mark 12:31108 votes
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
What does the Bible say about selfishness?
Readers most often cite Philippians 2:4 on the subject of selfishness. Across 12,057 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Timothy 3:2-4, 1 John 3:17, 1 Corinthians 10:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.