Bible Questions Answered:
“My friend nominated herself as
sunday school superintendent, and she's always listing her credits
for everything......”
Stephanie/ Waco Texas
Bible Answer:
Selfishness:
Lacking consideration for others;
concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
The Word:
Psalm 75:5-7 KJV
5 Lift not up your horn on high:
speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion cometh neither from
the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is The Judge: He putteth
down one, and setteth up another.
Isaiah 56:11 NCV (Evil Leaders
of Israel.)
They are like hungry dogs that are
never satisfied. They are like shepherds who don’t know what they
are doing. They all have gone their own way; all they want to do is
satisfy themselves.
Matthew 16;25 KJV
For whosoever will save his life
shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall
find it.
Mark 10:42-44 NLT
42 So Jesus called them together and
said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their
people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.
43 But among you it will be
different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your
servant,
44 and whoever wants to be first
among you must be the slave of everyone else.
45 For even The Son Of Man came not
to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for
many.”
Romans 15:1 KJV
We then that are strong ought to
bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
I Corinthians 10:24 KJV
Let no man seek his own, but every
man another's wealth.
II Corinthians 5:15 KJV
He died for everyone so that those
who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead,
they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
Philippians 2:3,4 NLT
3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to
impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than
yourselves.
4 Don’t look out only for your own
interests, but take an interest in others, too.
James 2:8 NLT
Yes indeed, it is good when you obey
the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as
yourself.
II Peter 2:10 KJV
But chiefly them that walk after the
flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid to speak evil
of dignities.
Christ our example:
Philippians 2:7,8 KJV
7 But made Himself of no reputation,
and took upon Him the form of A Servant, and was made in the likeness
of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a
man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross.
Matthew 10:38 KJV
And he that taketh not his cross,
and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 16:24 KJV
Then said Jesus unto His disciples,
If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow Me.
“Selfishness
is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no
one is without in himself”
Henry Ward Beecher
Psalm 139:23,24
KJV
23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked
way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
