36 Bible Verses about Putting God First

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

But you must strive to find his kingdom, and you will have these other things besides.

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

For it is the will of God that by doing right you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish people.

He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him.

As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me the strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into his service,

Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.

That is the great, first command.

and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God.

For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."

You have put everything under his feet!" In thus making everything subject to man, God left nothing that was not subjected to him. But we do not as yet see everything made subject to him,

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

For this reason I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift that you received when I laid my hands upon you.

But I have told you about these things in order that when the time comes for them to happen, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you this at first because I was still staying with you.

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.

God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.

Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

Therefore I will always remind you of this, although you know it and are firmly grounded in the truth that you have.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.