48 Bible Verses about Putting God First

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

But seek his kingdom and these [things] will be added to you.

For "he subjected all [things] under his feet." But when it says "all [things]" are subjected, [it is] clear that the one who subjected all [things] to him [is] not included.

and everything {whatever} you do in word or in deed, giving thanks [for] all [things] in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.

and you [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.

But whenever all [things] are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all [things] to him, in order that God may be all in all.

For the will of God is as follows: [by] doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,

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.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him.

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.

{I give thanks} to the one who strengthens me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful, placing [me] into ministry,

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is said, 'You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.'"

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.

This is the greatest and first commandment.

and receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

to the church of God sanctified in Christ Jesus that is in Corinth, called [to be] saints, together with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."

Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established.

(but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

Thus the last will be first and the first last."

you subjected all [things] under his feet. For in subjecting all [things], he left nothing [that was] not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all [things] subjected to him,

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope [is] from him.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.

then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you [are] the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire [under it]."

in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

But I have said these [things] to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them.

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

and he subjected all [things] under his feet and gave him [as] head over all [things] to the church,

"This month [will be] the beginning of months; it [will be] for you the first of the months of the year.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

But the spiritual [is] not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.

And God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light.

So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Therefore I intend to remind you continually concerning these [things], although [you] know [them] and are established in the truth that you have.

Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart.

Every word of God [is] flawless; he [is] a shield for him who takes refuge in him.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and [then] to us, by the will of God.