Unselfishness: General Scriptures Concerning

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  1. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
  2. We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. …
  3. Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. …
  4. No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
  5. …as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
  6. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
  7. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
  8. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
  9. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
  10. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
  11. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
  12. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
  13. If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.