48 Bible Verses about importance

The end of a matter is better than its beginning;
Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.

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

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to 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 this I rejoice.Yes, and I will rejoice,

What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.

But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me.

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

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

This is the great and foremost commandment.

If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

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

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

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

And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

Have you not even read this Scripture:
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;

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

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

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

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit 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 take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that You think of him?

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

A wise man is strong,
And a man of knowledge increases power.

and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased,
The eyes of the proud also will be abased.

Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;