48 Bible Verses about importance

The end of a matter [is] better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.

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

For I passed on 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 is the result?} Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,

what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

One person prefers [one] day over [another] day, and another person regards every day [alike]. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!

But from those {who were influential} (whatever they were, [it makes] no difference to me, {God does not show partiality})--for those who were influential added nothing to me.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him {after} his father Zechariah.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

This is the greatest and first commandment.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not [a part] of the body," not because of this is it not [a part] of the body.

And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.

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

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

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not [a part] of the body, not because of this is it not [a part] of the body.

Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.

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

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now,

[The] stone the builders rejected has become [the] chief cornerstone.

And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

And the house that I am building [will be] great, for our God [is] greater than all gods.

For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy 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 Yahweh, what [is] humankind that you take knowledge of him, [or the] son of man that you take thought of him?

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

And the second [is] like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

And one of the scribes came up [and] heard them debating. [When he] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Blind [people]! For which [is] greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy

You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.

The warrior of wisdom [is] in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong [in] power.

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,

And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and [the] eyes of [the] haughty are humiliated.

Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand.