Quotes About Selfishness

This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

The former, however, preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can add to the distress of my chains.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.