49 Bible Verses About Selflessness

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.

And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?