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 just as we have many body-parts in one body, and all the body-parts have not the same function,

For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

For the life is more than the food, and the body, the clothing.

What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice.

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

One man prefers one day above another, another man prefers every day. Let each man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Woe to you Pharisees! Because ye love the place of honor in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me,

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

It is necessary for that man to increase, but me to decrease.

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling it by the name of his father Zacharias.

When thou are invited by any man to wedding festivities, do not sit down in the chief place, lest there may be a more honorable man than thou who was invited by him.

This is the first and great commandment.

If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, instead, the keeping of God's commandments.

and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at the feasts,

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And have ye not read this scripture: The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be into the head of the corner.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good-news of the grace of God.

for your participation in the good-news from the first day until now.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

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

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

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

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

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

LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him?

and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

And one of the scholars having come, having heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, he questioned him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Jesus says to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be in the head of the corner. This happened from Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

Ye foolish and blind men, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

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

A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increases might.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

And the common man is bowed down, and the great man is debased, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled,

Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men.