37 Bible Verses about Putting God First

"But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

"But seek his kingdom, and these things shall be added to you.

For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.

And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist.

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

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.

And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

"It has been said," replied Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God."

If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

"This is the great and first commandment.

Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he take charge of a church of God?

and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

"So the last shall be first, and the first, last."

Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him.

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

"But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you.

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual.

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

"Now then, why are you tempting God by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.