Selfishness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Selfishness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 64 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 4:9 OT
Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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Numbers 32:6 OT
Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
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Psalms 38:11 OT
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
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He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
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Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
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If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
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One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
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Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?
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Micah 3:11 OT
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Haggai 1:4 OT
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
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Haggai 1:9 OT
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
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Haggai 1:10 OT
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
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When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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Malachi 1:10 OT
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
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Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
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Luke 6:32-34 NT
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you…
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Romans 14:15 NT
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
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Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is…
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Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
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Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.