Let each of you not look out for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which never have enough. And they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his own gain, to his own end.

Who is there even among you that will shut the doors, so that you not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you, says Jehovah of Hosts, nor will I accept a food offering from your hand.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

And it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.

And He said to another, Follow Me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid farewell to those who are at my house.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being.

just as I also strive to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own profit, but of the many, in order that they may be saved.

does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

for Demas has deserted me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica; Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.

At my first defense no one stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be reckoned against them.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

For the love of Christ holds us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again.