Selfishness

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors,…

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

“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.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

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.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

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.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,