37 Bible Verses about Putting God First

But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you.

No, seek his Kingdom, and these things shall be added for you.

For God has placed all things under Christ's feet. (But, when it is said that all things have been placed under Christ, it is plain that God is excepted who placed everything under him.)

And, whatever you say or do, do everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus; and through him offer thanksgiving to God the father.

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

And, when everything has been placed under him, the Son will place himself under God who placed everything under him, that God may be all in all!

For God's will is this--that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ.

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.

But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.

I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry,

But Jesus answered him: "It is said--'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.

This is the great first commandment.

And receive 'the helmet of Salvation,' and 'the sword of the Spirit'--which is the Message of God--always with prayer and supplication.

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

From Paul, who has been called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, And from Sosthenes, our Brother.

For in it there is a revelation of the Divine Righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as Scripture says- -'Through faith the righteous man shall find Life.'

If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God?

And that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the Truth.

So those who are last will be first, and the first last."

Thou hast placed all things beneath his feet.' This 'placing of everything' under man means that there was nothing which was not placed under him. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under man.

Then will come the end-when he surrenders the Kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power.

So that your faith should be based, not on the philosophy of man, but on the power of God.

And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands.

But I have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself.

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.

His answer was: "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.'

And God placed 'all things under Christ's feet,' and gave him to the Church as its supreme Head;

That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterwards comes the spiritual;

But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the Devil.

And that, not only in the way we had expected; but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us also, in accordance with God's will.