39 Bible Verses about importance

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office;

For I delivered to you, among the first things, that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;

for the soul is more than the food; and the body, than the clothing.

What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

One man, indeed, esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

"Woe to you Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces!

But from those reputed to be something (whatever they were, it matters not to me: God does not accept man's person): to me, in fact, those of repute added nothing;

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And it came to pass, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they were calling him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

"When you are bidden by any one to a marriage feast, sit not on the first seat, lest possibly a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;

This is the great and first commandment.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

And He said to them, "Ye are those who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

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

and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at the feasts;

And, if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

Did ye never read the Scripture, "The stone which the builders rejected, the same became the head of a corner;

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

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

and they love the first place in the feasts, and the front seats in the synagogues,

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

And, behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last."

and over all these put on love, which is the uniting-bond of perfectness.

A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And one of the scribes, coming near, hearing them discussing together, knowing that He answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is first of all?"

Jesus saith to them, "Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made head of a corner; this was from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'

Ye blind! for which is greater??he gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Ye are scrupulously observing days, and months, and seasons, and years!

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;