{"id":12105,"date":"2024-11-21T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:59:15","slug":"bible-selfishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/bible-selfishness\/","title":{"rendered":"L'egoismo \u00e8 un peccato? S\u00ec: cosa dice la Bibbia sull'essere egoisti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes, selfishness is a sin. The Bible calls it by several names: selfish ambition, covetousness and love of self. Paul lists &quot;selfish ambition&quot; among the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20, NIV) and tells Christians to &quot;do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit&quot; (Philippians 2:3). Augustine and later teachers describe sin itself as love of self set against God. Paul does not leave the warning bare. In the same breath he asks the Philippians to &quot;count others more significant than\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Paul lists selfish ambition among the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20) and says, &quot;Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit&quot; (Philippians 2:3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hf620-img_00030.webp?fit=900%2C675&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}