selflessness
What does the Bible say about selflessness? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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4Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others.
35So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked.
3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.
8And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble,
17Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.
14For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
36Bend my heart with your testimonies, and not with avarice.
12This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.
15See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone. Instead, always pursue whatever is good, with one another and with all.
17Instruct the wealthy of this age not to have a superior attitude, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who offers us everything in abundance to enjoy, 18and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share, 19to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.
31But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
24Let no one seek for himself, but for others.
5But as for you, taking up every concern, minister virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge; 6and in knowledge, moderation; and in moderation, patience; and in patience, piety; 7and in piety, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.
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.