They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.
Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.
"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.
After this, Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
But Paul felt that they ought not to take with them the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with them to their work.
A man must not study his own interests, but the interests of others.
For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.
Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;
It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.
And one and all should consider, not only their own interests, but also the interests of others.
You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,
for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!