40 Bible Verses about importance

For just as there are many parts united in our human bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

Life is more important than food, and the body than clothes.

But what difference does it make? All that matters is that, in one way or another, from false motives or honest ones, Christ is being made known; I am glad of that. Yes, and I expect to be glad,

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

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

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

That is the great, first command.

If the foot says, "As I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at dinners??40 men that eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get a far heavier sentence!"

And if the ear says, "As I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone;

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.

and they like the best places at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues,

and the parts of it that we think common, we dress with especial care, and our unpresentable parts receive especial attention

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

There are those now last who will then be first, and there are those now first who will be last."

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred?

You are observing days, months, seasons, and years!

and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,