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1 Corinthians 10 24
No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
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Philippians 2:4
Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.
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2 Timothy 3 2
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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1 Corinthians 13 5
is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples,“ If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
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1 Corinthians 10 33
just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
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Philippians 1:20-21
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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Isaiah 56:11
These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.
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2 Timothy 4 10
because Demas has deserted me, since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, and even his own life— he cannot be my disciple.
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2 Corinthians 5 14-2 Corinthians 5 15
For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
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2 Corinthians 1 5
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
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Luke 9:57-62
As they were traveling on the road someone said to him,“ I will follow you wherever you go.”Jesus told him,“ Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”Then he said to another,“ Follow me.”“ Lord,” he said,“ first let me go bury my father.”But he told him,“ Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”Another said,“ I will follow you, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”But Jesus said to him,“ No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Acts 13:13
Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and went back to Jerusalem.
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Acts 15:38
But Paul insisted that they should not take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.
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Malachi 1:10
“ I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Armies,“ and I will accept no offering from your hands.
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2 Timothy 4 16
At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.
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2 Timothy 1 15
You know that all those in the province of Asia have deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.