Unselfishness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Judges 8:23 OT

  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:12 OT

  The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

• 1 Samuel 11:13 OT

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 23:17 OT

  He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

• 1 Samuel 23:18 OT

  They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 24:17 OT

  He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

• 2 Samuel 15:19 OT

  Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

• 2 Samuel 15:20 OT

  Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

• 2 Samuel 23:16 OT

  The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 23:17 OT

  He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17 OT

  David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s…

• Psalms 69:6 OT

  Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:22-24 OT

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. All this, O king, does Araunah give to…

• Nehemiah 5:14-18 OT

  Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the…

• Esther 9:15 OT

  The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

• Daniel 5:17 OT

  Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

• Jonah 1:12 OT

  He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”

• Jonah 1:13 OT

  Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

• Matthew 1:19 NT

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Acts 4:34 NT

  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

• Acts 4:35 NT

  and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

• Romans 16:3 NT

  Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

• Romans 16:4 NT

  who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

• Philippians 1:18 NT

  What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.