46 Bible Verses about importance

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

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

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)--those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

He must increase, but I must decrease."

And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,

This is the great and first commandment.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.

and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

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

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great,