12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness
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But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth. This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.
For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.
In their greed they will exploit you with messages manufactured by themselves. From of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction has not been slumbering.
but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,
For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and all sorts of evil practices.
Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;
And this is the second, 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."
Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors.
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it.
Their doom is destruction, their stomach is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are feeding on earthly things,
