25 Bible Verses About Selflessness (ESV)

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

17   Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD,
    and he will repay him for his deed.

14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

36   Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!

29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

27   Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in your power to do it.
28   Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
    tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

18:1   Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire;
    he breaks out against all sound judgment.

31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;