Unselfishness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Unselfishness’. 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.
Showing 1–24 of 51 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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Romans 12:10 NT
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
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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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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…
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Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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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.
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Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
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doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
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For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
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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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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.
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doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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James 2:8 NT
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
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Genesis 13:9 OT
Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
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that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
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I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”
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Genesis 23:6 OT
“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
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“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
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Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
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I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among…
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Judges 8:22 OT
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”