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Want to know what the Bible says about Selfish People? Here are 27 Bible verses about Selfish People from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Philippians 2:21 NIV
For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 56:11 NIV
They are dogs with mighty appetites;
    they never have enough.
They are shepherds who lack understanding;
    they all turn to their own way,
    they seek their own gain.
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Proverbs 30:12 NIV
those who are pure in their own eyes
    and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
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1 Corinthians 10:33 NIV
even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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Leviticus 19:18 NIV
“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 5:15 NIV
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
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Jeremiah 45:5 NIV
Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.’”
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John 3:16-17 NIV
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
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Ephesians 2:3 NIV
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
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Philippians 2:7-9 NIV
7 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death
    even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
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