Unselfishness

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

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

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

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

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

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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.

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

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

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

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

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?

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

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

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

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? — read the full passage →

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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

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.

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 though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. — 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,

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.’”

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

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.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

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

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.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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

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

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

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

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor. — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News. — 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 →

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

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.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

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.

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, — read the full passage →

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

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.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.