Quotes about Selflessness
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
- 1 Corinthians 10:24
as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
- 1 Corinthians 10:33
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 13:3
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:5
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Corinthians 3:5
For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
- 2 Corinthians 4:5
And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15
It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
- 2 Corinthians 6:12
For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,
- 2 Corinthians 8:3
For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
- 2 Corinthians 10:18