35 Bible Verses about Putting God First

Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

only seek his Realm, and it will be yours over and above.

For God has put everything under his feet. When it is said that everything has been put under him, plainly that excludes Him who put everything under him;

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

and you belong to Christ, and Christ to God.

and when everything is put under him, then the Son himself will be put under Him who put everything under him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.

I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

Jesus answered him, "It has been said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God."

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

This is the greatest and chief command.

put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God),

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

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

putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man;

Then comes the end, when he hands over his royal power to God the Father, after putting down all other rulers, all other authorities and powers.

so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God.

Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;

I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

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

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.

but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.

no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.