Selfish People

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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

And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.