Is loving yourself a sin?

[TonyChanYT]

Yes, if that's your only focus, 2 Timothy 3:

2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

On the other hand, we are commanded in Matthew 22:

39b Love your neighbor as yourself.

If you don't love yourself, how will you love others? There is a psychologically healthy aspect of loving yourself.

Ephesians 5:

28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Loving yourself in this context is a good thing.

29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

Most of all, Matthew 22:

37 Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Love God, love your neighbors, and love yourself. We should have all three.

 

[Bob Estey]

Yes, if that's your only focus, 2 Timothy 3:


On the other hand, we are commanded in Matthew 22:


If you don't love yourself, how will you love others? There is a psychologically healthy aspect of loving yourself.

Ephesians 5:


Loving yourself in this context is a good thing.


Most of all, Matthew 22:


Love God, love your neighbors, and love yourself. We should have all three.

Apparently loving yourself is not a sin, as the Lord told us to love our neighbors as ourselves.