Selfish People

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 the LORD.

Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness.

A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.

And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh,” says the LORD. “But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go.” ’ ”

but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

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

and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

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

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.