What the Bible Says About ... Volume 2Sample

Selfishness – 3

The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him … All day long he craves for more.

They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough … they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.… From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. … For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness. … God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. … They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned.

Pr 21:25-26; Is 56:11, Je 8:10; Ga 5:19-21, Ep 5:5; Ro 1:18, Ro 1:28-29, Ep 4:18-20.