This is why Christ instructed us to overcome the ego/"self" and learn to crucify it
DAILY.
Overcoming the "self":
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the communities; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:11
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the communities; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death (The Fire).
Revelation 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the communities; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a NEW name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it].
Revelation 2:26-28
2:26 And
he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
2:27
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
2:28
And I will give him the Morning Star.
Revelation 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before His angels.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in The Temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
Revelation 3:21
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His Throne.
Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My (adopted) son.
And learning to crucify it (the ego/"self")
DAILY:
Matthew 10:37-38
10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter (or anyone or anything) more than me is not worthy of me.
10:38
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
10:39
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
10:40
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth Him that sent me.
10:41
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Matthew 16:24-26
16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8:34-35
8:34
And when he had called the people [unto him] with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny his "Self", and take up his cross, and follow me.
8:35 F
or whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Luke 9:23-25
9:23 And he said to [them] all,
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross DAILY, and follow me.
9:24
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
9:25
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke 14:26-27
14:26
If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own (human) life also, he can NOT be my disciple.
14:27
And whosoever doth not bear his cross (of daily "self" sacrifice), and come after me, can NOT be my disciple.
Thomas 6:9 Jesus said:
When you take off your shame without being ashamed, and take your clothes (bodies) and put them under your feet as the little children and tread on them, then shall you behold the Son of the Living One and you shall not fear.
Galatians 2:20
My "Self" is crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I (the "Self"), but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Narcissism is the worship of the "self", placing it above God and above one's neighbours (fellow man) thereby breaking the Two Great Commandments (
Mark 12:29-31).