11 Bible Verses about Great Things

"Teacher, what is the great commandment in the Law?"

Then came up one of the Teachers of the Law who had heard their discussions. Knowing that Jesus had answered them wisely, he asked him this question: "What is the first of all the commandments?"

This is the great first commandment.

"The first," answered Jesus, "is--'Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is the one Lord;

The second is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost love thyself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Fools that you are and blind! Which is the more important? The gold? Or the Temple which has given sacredness to the gold?

Blind indeed! Which is the more important? The offering? or the altar which gives sacredness to the offering?

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you.

And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.

For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),