Bible Encyclopedia: Selfishness: Exhibited in Seeking After Gain

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The Good Samaritan.
... 62] The analogy between the meetings exhibited in this ... aside after they have sprung,
and degenerate into selfishness. ... of religion as more self-seeking and less ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xvii the good samaritan.htm

Christian Sympathy
... God that made them, have yet exhibited bowels of ... find in Christ a grain of selfishness,
consecrate yourselves ... hurt than good, for while seeking to vindicate ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/christian sympathy.htm

Be not Conformed to this World. Romans 12:2.
... He exhibited the same spirit that God does, who enjoys his ... They are following
selfishness on a larger scale ... buy and sell on the principle of not seeking our own ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/be not conformed to this.htm

Epistle of Paul to the Philippians.
... grace of the Lord had been exhibited towards him in ... to avoid every appearance of
self-seeking, and to ... far also from that more refined selfishness, which cannot ...
/.../epistle of paul to the.htm

section second.
... denying love, in purification from all selfishness, thereby becoming ... form, in its
full extent as exhibited above. ... the position of the wisdom-seeking Greeks, of ...
/.../the epistle of paul to the philippians practically explained/section second.htm

Enthusiasm.
... might be so refined from selfishness as to ... assimilated; and Behmen's strange theosophy,
after passing through ... the Divine will"of seeking 'deliverance from ...
/.../abbey/the english church in the eighteenth century/chapter vii enthusiasm.htm

The Pilgrim's Progress
... Yea, tell them how plain-hearted this man was, How after his good Lord he ... thy mysterious
lines, let them remain For those whose nimble fancies shall them gain. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the pilgrims progress.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 56:11
Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Selfishness

Selfishness: All Men Addicted To

Selfishness: Cain

Selfishness: Characteristic of the Last Days

Selfishness: Contrary to the Law of God

Selfishness: Especially Forbidden to Saints

Selfishness: Exhibited in Being Lovers of Ourselves

Selfishness: Exhibited in Living to Ourselves

Selfishness: Exhibited in Neglect of the Poor

Selfishness: Exhibited in Performing Duty for Reward

Selfishness: Exhibited in Pleasing Ourselves