12 Bible Verses About Putting Others First

Love one another warmly, as brothers and sisters in one family; take the lead in honoring one another.

No one should look for their own advantage, but for the other person’s.

Do not act out of rivalry or out of a craving for empty glory. Instead, be humble, and regard each other as standing above yourselves.

Take up one another’s heavy loads, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

It does not behave shamefully, it does not look for its own advantage, it does not lose its temper, and it does not keep a tally of wrongs.

Those of us who are strong have a duty to carry the weaknesses of those who lack strength, instead of living to please ourselves. Each of us should please our neighbor, aiming at what is good for them and what builds them up.

He sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of everyone and the servant of everyone.”

No one has a love greater than this: that someone lays down their life for their friends.

Among yourselves, think in the way that Christ Jesus also thought, who, being in the form of God, did not treat being equal with God as something to exploit for himself. Rather, he emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant and coming to share the likeness of human beings. And when he was found in outward form as a human being,

I do the same: in all I do I seek to please all people, looking not for what helps me but for what helps the many, so that they may be saved.

Be of one mind toward each other. Do not aim at lofty things, but be glad to go along with people of low position. Do not count yourselves wise.