Bible Thesaurus: Selfishness: Contrary to the Law of God

◄ Selfishness: Contrary to the Law of God ►

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Leviticus 19:18
You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
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Matthew 22:39
And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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James 2:8
If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:
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Library

Attributes of Selfishness.
... On the contrary, it lays before him the consequences of ... in his ear the terrible
sanctions of the law. ... themselves, than they do in their beastly selfishness? ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xvii attributes of selfishness.htm

Do are Then Make Void the Law through Faith? God Forbid; Yea, we ...
... as reclaim him, but on the contrary, drive him to ... of those considerations that naturally
tend to confirm selfishness. ... The law represents God as armed with wrath ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/do are then make void.htm

Seeketh not Her Own. 1 Corinthians 13:5.
... of pursuit, is as contrary to the gospel as it is to the law. 5. It is contrary
to conscience ... we see how much pains men take to conceal their selfishness and to ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/seeketh not her own 1.htm

For they Loved the Praise of Men More than the Praise of God. John ...
... Whenever it is indulged contrary to the law of God ... principle, and we prefer our own
gratification to some other greater interest, it becomes selfishness. ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/for they loved the praise.htm

A Tribute from Enemies
... and light weights, and bad tempers, and dishonesty, and selfishness are. ... If earthly
authorities command what is clearly contrary to God's law, a Christian ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/a tribute from enemies.htm

Hopkinsians.
... and ambition among men, which is nothing but selfishness, acted out ... wrath, clamor,
and evil speaking; and every thing contrary to the divine law is briefly ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/hopkinsians.htm

Sanctions of Moral Law, Natural and Governmental.
... disobedience to moral law, or from acting contrary to the ... We have seen that sin is
selfishness, that it consists ... That the penal sanctions of the law of God are ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xix sanctions of moral.htm

Sanctification.
... the liberty of the gospel, is absurd and contrary to the ... somehow to the level of
human passion and selfishness. ... in us "the righteousness of the law," and cause ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxviii sanctification.htm

"God with Us"
... The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God's ... represents God's law
of love as a law of selfishness. ... possible for us also to obey the law of God. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 1 god with us.htm

Moral Depravity.
... notorious is the fact of human selfishness, that should ... his intercourse with men,
assume the contrary, he would ... to have secured conformity to moral law, as the ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxii moral depravity.htm

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