48 Bible Verses about importance

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it; the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice.

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

One indeed esteems a day above another day; and another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming important conferred nothing to me.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were calling it Zacharias, after his father's name.

When you are invited by anyone to a wedding, do not recline in the chief seat, lest a more honorable man than you may be invited by him.

This is the first and great commandment.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

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

and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at feasts

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

And have you not read this scripture "The Stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of the corner:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

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

The Stone which the builders refused has become the Head of the corner.

And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety.

And the house which I am building is great. For our God is great above all gods.

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

And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last.

O Jehovah, what is man that You take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that You esteem him?

And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And coming up one of the scribes heard them reasoning, knowing that He had answered them well, he asked Him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, "The stone which the builders rejected, this One has become the head of the corner; this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?"

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

You observe days and months and times and years.

A wise man is strong; yes, a man of knowledge increases strength.

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

And man is bowed down, and man is humbled and the eyes of the lofty are humbled.

Do not put yourself forth in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of the great;