Selfishness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Romans 12:5 NT

  so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 NT

  For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all…

• 1 Corinthians 10:24 NT

  Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

• Philippians 2:4 NT

  each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

• 2 Corinthians 5:14 NT

  For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 NT

  For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are…

• Ephesians 2:3 NT

  We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

• Job 1:9-11 OT

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is…

• 2 Timothy 3:1 NT

  But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

• 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?”

• 1 Samuel 25:3 OT

  Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

• 1 Samuel 25:11 OT

  Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

• Esther 6:6 OT

  So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

• Zechariah 7:6 OT

  When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

• Mark 10:37 NT

  They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”

• John 6:26 NT

  Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.