40 Bible Verses about importance

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

For in the first place I delivered to you, that which I also received, to wit, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

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

What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;

One preferreth some days to others; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every one be fully satisfied in his own mind.

Wo unto you pharisees; for ye love the chief seat in synagogues, and salutations in public places.

And as to those who seemed to be men of note, whatever they were, it is all one to me, (God accepteth no man's person) for even these eminent persons added nothing more to me.

But I would have you know that Christ is the head of every man; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

and on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father:

When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the uppermost place, least one more honorable than thou be invited by him;

And the second is like it,

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

And He said unto them, Ye justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

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

and the chief seats in the synagogues, and uppermost places at 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?

And have ye not read this scripture, "The stone, which the builders refused, is become the head of the corner:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

in every prayer of mine) for your attachment to the gospel, from the first day even till now;

and love the uppermost places at feasts,

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And behold, there are some last who shall be first, and there are first that shall be last.

And above all these put on love, which is the band of perfection.

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And one of the scribes, who heard them disputing, seeing that He answered them well, came to Him and asked Him, Which is the chief commandment of all?

Then saith Jesus to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, "The stone which the builders refused, is made the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?"

O foolish and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifieth the gift?

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years:

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;