1 Corinthians 10:24 Meaning Let No One Seek His Own

A person cannot seek their own good and their neighbor's at the same time, so the aim decides the day.

Seeking aimed at one's own good runs as a permanent audit of what a person is owed. The audit sets a state of scarcity, scarcity produces resentment, resentment acts small and calls it fairness, and the ledger never closes because there is always another entry.

Redirected onto whoever is standing nearby, the same drive produces work instead of accounting, and work is the only evidence of worth that ever holds. People arguing over what they had every right to do find the question moved rather than settled, since a freedom now gets measured by what it does for the man next to it. Dropping the audit costs a person every grievance they were planning to collect on.