40 Bible Verses about importance

For as we have in one body many members, but the members, though many, have not the same function,

For I delivered to you among the first things that which I also had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

One man judgeth one day different from another day: another judgeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse.

But from those who appeared men of the greatest importance, (what sort of men soever they were it maketh no difference to me: God accepteth not a man's person;) for these important personages in conference added nothing to me;

But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

He must grow great, but I diminutive.

And it came to pass, on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him after the name of his father, Zacharias.

When thou art invited of any person to a marriage entertainment, recline not on the principal couch; lest a more honourable personage than thyself be invited by him;

This is the first and great commandment.

If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body?

And he said unto them, Ye are they who affect to be righteous persons before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination in the sight of God.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the observance of the commandments of God.

and the principal seats in the synagogues, and the first couch at suppers:

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body?

Have ye never read this scripture? "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day even until now;

and love the principal couch at suppers, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And, behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

And one of the scribes coming, and hearing them questioning him, perceiving that he had answered them admirably, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Jesus saith unto them, Have ye not read in the Scriptures, "The stone, which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner; this is done by the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes."

Ye fools and blind! which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which consecrates the gift?

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despicable, hath God elected, and the things that are not, to bring to nought the things which are,