TOPICAL BIBLE
Unselfishness
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Genesis 13:9Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.’Genesis 14:21And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, ‘Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,’Genesis 14:23from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I—I have made Abram rich;Genesis 14:24save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who have gone with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—they take their portion.’Genesis 23:6Hear us, my lord; a prince of God art thou in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury thy dead: none of us his burying-place doth withhold from thee, from burying thy dead.’Genesis 23:11Nay, my lord, hear me: the field I have given to thee, and the cave that is in it, to thee I have given it; before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to thee—bury thy dead.’Genesis 44:33‘And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,Genesis 44:34for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.’Numbers 11:29And Moses saith to him, ‘Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah’s people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!’Numbers 14:12I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.’Numbers 14:13And Moses saith unto Jehovah, ‘Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,Numbers 14:14and they have said it unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen—O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them,—and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.Numbers 14:15‘And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,Numbers 14:16From Jehovah’s want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them—He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.Numbers 14:17‘And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:Numbers 14:18Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth;—Numbers 14:19forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.’Judges 8:22And the men of Israel say unto Gideon, ‘Rule over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, for thou hast saved us from the hand of Midian.’Judges 8:23And Gideon saith unto them, ‘I do not rule over you, nor doth my son rule over you; Jehovah doth rule over you.’1 Samuel 11:12And the people say unto Samuel, ‘Who is he that saith, Saul doth reign over us! give ye up the men, and we put them to death.’1 Samuel 11:13And Saul saith, ‘There is no man put to death on this day, for to-day hath Jehovah wrought salvation in Israel.’1 Samuel 23:17and saith unto him, ‘Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father doth not find thee, and thou dost reign over Israel, and I am to thee for second, and also so knoweth Saul my father.’1 Samuel 23:18And they make a covenant both of them before Jehovah; and David abideth in the forest, and Jonathan hath gone to his house.1 Samuel 24:17And he saith unto David, ‘More righteous thou art than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;2 Samuel 15:19And the king saith unto Ittai the Gittite, ‘Why dost thou go—thou also—with us? turn back—and abide with the king, for thou art a stranger, and also an exile thou—to thy place.2 Samuel 15:20Yesterday is thy coming in, and to-day I move thee to go with us, and I am going on that which I am going!—turn back, and take back thy brethren with thee,—kindness and truth.’2 Samuel 23:16And the three mighty ones cleave through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water out of the well of Beth-Lehem, which is by the gate, and take it up, and bring in unto David; and he was not willing to drink it, and poureth it out to Jehovah,2 Samuel 23:17and saith, ‘Far be it from me, O Jehovah, to do this; is it the blood of the men who are going with their lives?’ and he was not willing to drink it; these things did the three mighty ones.2 Samuel 24:22And Araunah saith unto David, ‘Let my lord the king take and cause to ascend that which is good in his eyes; see, the oxen for a burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments, and the instruments of the oxen, for wood;’2 Samuel 24:23the whole hath Araunah given, as a king to a king; and Araunah saith unto the king, ‘Jehovah thy God doth accept thee.’2 Samuel 24:24And the king saith unto Araunah, ‘Nay, for I do surely buy from thee for a price, and I do not cause to ascend to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings for nought;’ and David buyeth the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver,1 Chronicles 21:17And David saith unto God, ‘Did not I—I say to number the people? Yea, I it is who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people—to be plagued.’Nehemiah 5:14Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes the king—twelve years—I, and my brethren, the bread of the governor have not eaten:Nehemiah 5:15the former governors who are before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.Nehemiah 5:16And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work;Nehemiah 5:17and of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that are round about us, are at my table;Nehemiah 5:18and that which hath been prepared for one day is one ox, six fat sheep, also fowls have been prepared for me, and once in ten days of all wines abundantly, and with this, the bread of the governor I have not sought, for heavy is the service on this people.Esther 9:15And the Jews who are in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.Psalm 69:6Let not those waiting on Thee be ashamed because of me, O Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Let not those seeking Thee Blush because of me, O God of Israel.Daniel 5:17Then hath Daniel answered and said before the king, ‘Thy gifts be to thyself, and thy fee to another give; nevertheless, the writing I do read to the king, and the interpretation I cause him to know;Jonah 1:12And he saith unto them, ‘Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest is upon you.’Jonah 1:13And the men row to turn back unto the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more tempestuous against them.Matthew 1:19and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.Acts 4:34for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling them, were bringing the prices of the thing sold,Acts 4:35and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.Romans 12:10in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;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;’Romans 16:3Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus—Romans 16:4who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations—1 Corinthians 9:19for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:20and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:21to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law;1 Corinthians 9:22I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;1 Corinthians 10:24let no one seek his own—but each another’s.1 Corinthians 10:33as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.1 Corinthians 13:4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,1 Corinthians 13:5doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
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