37 Bible Verses about Putting God First

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.

for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him.

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.

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

But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.

For it is God's will that by doing what is right you should thus silence the ignorant talk of foolish persons.

And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit.

I am thankful to Him who made me strong--even Christ Jesus our Lord--because He has judged me to be faithful and has put me into His service,

The reply of Jesus was, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not put the Lord they God to the proof.'"

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

This is the greatest and foremost Commandment.

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.

For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith; as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith."

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.

"So the last shall be first, and the first last."

Thou hast put everything in subjection under his feet." For this subjecting of the universe to man implies the leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not as yet see the universe subject to him.

Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.

so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.

For this reason let me remind you to rekindle God's gift which is yours through the laying on of my hands.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'

God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,

Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.

But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.

Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

For this reason I shall always persist in reminding you of these things, although you know them and are stedfast believers in truth which you already possess.

Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand firm against all the stratagems of the Devil.

They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord and to us.