TOPICAL BIBLE
Selfishness
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Genesis 4:9And Jehovah saith unto Cain, ‘Where is Abel thy brother?’ and he saith, ‘I have not known; my brother’s keeper—I?’Numbers 32:6And Moses saith to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, ‘Do your brethren go in to the battle, and ye—do ye sit here?Psalm 38:11My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.Proverbs 11:26Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.Proverbs 18:17Righteous is the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.Proverbs 24:11If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter—thou keepest back.Proverbs 24:12When thou sayest, ‘Lo, we knew not this.’ Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.Proverbs 28:27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.Micah 3:11Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, ‘Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.’Haggai 1:4Is it time for you—you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?Haggai 1:9Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore?—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house,Haggai 1:10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.Zechariah 7:6When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months—even these seventy years—did ye keep the fast to Me—Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?Malachi 1:10Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, ‘If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.’Matthew 19:22And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;Luke 6:32and—if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;Luke 6:33and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same;Luke 6:34and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners—that they may receive again as much.Romans 14:15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.Romans 15:1And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;Romans 15:2for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,Romans 15:3for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, ‘The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;’1 Corinthians 10:24let no one seek his own—but each another’s.2 Corinthians 5:15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.Galatians 6:2of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,Philippians 2:4each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.Philippians 2:20for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,Philippians 2:21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,2 Timothy 3:2for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,2 Timothy 3:3without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,2 Timothy 3:4traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,James 2:15and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,James 2:16and any one of you may say to them, ‘Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,’ and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?1 John 3:17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?
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