Quotes about Selfishness
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- Hosea 12:8
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- Haggai 1:4
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
- Zechariah 7:6
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- Romans 16:18
For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 2:21
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- 2 Timothy 3:2
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
- James 3:16
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- James 4:3
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
- James 4:16
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
- Jude 1:12
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
- Jude 1:16
There is always that little voice in your head saying, "What about me?" Sometimes that little voice drowns out the cry of the team, and the collective results of the group get left behind.
- Patrick Lencioni