Selfish People

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

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

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. — 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,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — 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 where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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

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.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

“‘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 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 →

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.

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 →

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

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

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.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. — read the full passage →

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

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

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; — read the full passage →

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

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 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.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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 →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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

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 →

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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 →

and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. — read the full passage →

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

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

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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

He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.

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

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.” — read the full passage →

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.

“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.

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

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

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” — read the full passage →

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. — read the full passage →

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. — 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?

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

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

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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

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

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; — 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 →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.