self centeredness
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3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.
1Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members? 2You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
14But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.
16For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself. 4Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others.
19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us. 20If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see? 21And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.
1“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. 2Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. 5And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, who love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets to pray, so that they may be seen by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 6But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. 2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
31But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
30And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’
24Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
9As it happens, I had written to the church. But Diotrephes, who loves to bear the highest rank among them, would not accept us.