{"id":12105,"date":"2024-11-21T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:58:07","slug":"bible-selfishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/bible-selfishness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5229\u5df1\u4e3b\u7fa9\u306f\u7f6a\u304b\uff1f\u306f\u3044\uff1a\u5229\u5df1\u7684\u3067\u3042\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u306e\u8056\u66f8\u306e\u6559\u3048"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. The Bible treats selfishness as sin, under names such as 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. What does selfishness mean in the Bible? Scripture has no single word for selfishness. The New Testament word most often translated &quot;selfish\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\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/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\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}