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Bible Verses About Selfishness
Find Bible verses about selfishness — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about selfishness?
The Bible addresses selfishness with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Proverbs 18:1
“An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.”
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2 Samuel 12:4
“A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."”
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Judges 5:17
“Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.”
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Philippians 2:21
“For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.”
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2 Timothy 3:2
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
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Romans 2:8
“but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,”
Ezekiel 34:18
“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 resi...”
Genesis 38:9
“Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.”
1 Samuel 30:22
“Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except t...”
Isaiah 39:8
“Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."”
1 Corinthians 11:21
“For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.”
Luke 18:4
“He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,”
Deuteronomy 28:55
“so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in al...”
1 Samuel 25:11
“Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?"”
Deuteronomy 15:9
“Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry...”
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