I am not so sure that self love in these passages is lifted up as a good thing. It is set up to show that we need to care for others as much as we care selfishly for ourselves.
I think this passage is a reflection of what is being said in the passages you site.
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(Php 2:3) Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
(Php 2:4) Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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It is a given that we love ourselves above all things. Even in suicide and self punishment we are trying to make up for our inadequacy's. Relieving the supposed pain by self affliction or escaping it all by death.
Self love is deceptive.