selfishness

⁴Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others.

²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God,

¹⁷Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him?

²⁴Let no one seek for himself, but for others.

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.

¹⁶For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.

²¹For they all seek the things that are of themselves, not the things that are of Jesus Christ.

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

²Carry one another’s burdens, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ.

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.

¹But we who are stronger must bear with the feebleness of the weak, and not so as to please ourselves. ²Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification. ³For even Christ did not please himself, but as it was written: “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me.”

¹⁶But do not be willing to forget good works and fellowship. For God is deserving of such sacrifices.

³²And if you love those who love you, what credit is due to you? For even sinners love those who love them. ³³And if you will do good to those who do good to you, what credit is due to you? Indeed, even sinners behave this way. ³⁴And if you will loan to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is due to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, in order to receive the same in return.

⁸But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.