Are there circumstances where to "love your neighbor as yourself" also means you put him ahead of you? Do any scriptures help to determine if when asked for financial assistance you should give them money if you know they have more money than you, a better car, nicer house, spend more money eating out, etc.

Also if someone at work asks you to help them. You have your career to worry about as well as theirs, but what if they ask you to assist them then that person doesn't give you credit and they later earn a promotion not you? 

I am asking from a Protestant upbringing where I was taught you help others but don't ask for help yourself.
I am responding out of my own Protestant upbringing :



John the Baptist came preaching and said :


  Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance ... Luke 3:8 KJV.


In answer to the question 'What shall we do then ? he explained :


  He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.


John does not say that he who hath a coat give it away to him that hath none (and shiver himself). Nor the same with regard to food.

But it is also true what Jesus says :


  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 KJV.


Which, of course, Jesus did.