12 Bible Verses about Self Centeredness

But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

In their greed they will exploit you with pretended arguments. From of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not slumbered.

Those who are physical cannot please God.

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors.

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.