40 Bible Verses about importance

For just as there are in the one human body many parts, and these parts have not all the same function;

For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.

What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached--either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

One man esteems one day more highly than another; another esteems all days alike. Let every one be thoroughly convinced in his own mind.

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

He must grow greater, but I must grow less.

And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were going to call him Zechariah, after his father.

"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,

This is the greatest and foremost Commandment.

Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God's commandments is everything.

and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.

"Have you not read even this passage," He added, "'The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,

and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.

For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.

And I tell you that some now last will then be first, and some now first will then be last."

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

And the second is similar to it: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'

Then one of the Scribes, who had heard them disputing and well knew that Jesus had given them an answer to the point, and a forcible one, came forward and asked Him, "Which is the chief of all the Commandments?"

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?

"You are blind! Why, which is greater? --the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

You scrupulously observe days and months, special seasons, and years.

and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;