40 Bible Verses about importance

for as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office:

I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:

the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

is it not however some advantage? since in either way, whether it be occasionally, or professedly, Christ is preach'd; which is now, and always will be matter of joy to me.

one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike. let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind.

wo unto you Pharisees, for you affect to have the first rank in the synagogue, and to be complimented in publick places.

But as for those who were men of real eminency, how considerable soever they were heretofore, it does not any ways affect me; God accepts not the person of any man: for they who were of note, in conference with me, had nothing new to add.

but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

he must advance,

and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child. but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it,

when any one invites you to a wedding, don't put yourself in the highest seat: for fear some person of greater distinction should be a guest,

this is the first and most important precept,

if the foot should say, "because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?

but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper.

circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, in comparison of obeying the divine commands.

and to have the first seats in their synagogues, and at their feasts:

and if the ear should say, "because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?

have you not read, said he, this passage of scripture, "the stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle.

for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

things that little affect me, nor is life so much my concern, as to finish my course, and the charge I receiv'd from the Lord Jesus, to attest the declaration of the divine favour.

from the first day to the present time. being persuaded that

they affect the uppermost place at feasts, the principal chair in the synagogues,

what we think to be less honourable, is loaded with additional ornaments, and the less graceful have adventitious finery,

for I am the meanest of the apostles, not worthy the name of an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

then you will see those, who were last, become first: and those who were first, become last.

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

and the second has an affinity with it, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self."

One of the Scribes, that had heard their dispute, observing the propriety of his answers, propos'd this question to him, which is the principal commandment of all?

Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, " that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

observing as you do, the days, the moons, the feasts and years.

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.