Being Selfish

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. — read the full passage →

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. — read the full passage →

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh. — read the full passage →

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time, — read the full passage →

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them. — read the full passage →

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. — read the full passage →

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.” — read the full passage →

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. — read the full passage →

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. — read the full passage →

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →