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1 Corinthians 10 24
Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
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Philippians 2:4
Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
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2 Timothy 3 2
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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1 Corinthians 13 5
It is not rude, it is not self- serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples,“ If anyone wants to become my follower, he must 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 all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
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Philippians 1:20-21
My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
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Isaiah 56:11
The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
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2 Timothy 4 10
For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, 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 controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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2 Corinthians 1 5
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.
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Luke 9:57-62
As they were walking along the road, someone said to him,“ I will follow you wherever you go.”Jesus said to him,“ Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”Jesus said to another,“ Follow me.” But he replied,“ Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”But Jesus said to him,“ Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”Yet another said,“ I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.”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
Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
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Acts 15:38
but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
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Malachi 1:10
“ I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD who rules over all,“ and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
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2 Timothy 4 16
At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it.
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2 Timothy 1 15
You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
