But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

But continue to seek His will, and these things will be yours besides.

for He has put everything in subjection under His feet. But when He says that everything has been put in subjection to Him, He Himself is evidently excepted who put it all in subjection to Him.

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

Yes, you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

So He existed before all things, and through Him all things are held together.

But I want you to realize the fact that Christ is the Head of every man, that the husband is the head of the wife, and that God is the Head of Christ.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

I am always thanking Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into the ministry,

And Jesus answered him, "It has been said, 'You must not try the Lord your God.'"

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.

This is the greatest command, and is first in importance.

take the helmet salvation provides, and take the sword the Spirit wields, which is the word of God.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those first will be last."

You have put all things under His feet!" Now when He gave Him authority over everything, He did not leave a single thing that was not put under His authority. But as yet we do not see everything actually under His authority,

After that comes the end, when He will turn the kingdom over to God His Father, when He will put an end to all other government, authority, and power;

so that your faith might not be in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

For this reason I now remind you to rekindle and keep burning the fire of the divine gift which came upon you when I laid my hands upon you.

But I have told you these things that when the time does come, you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you these things at the start, because I was with you.

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,

But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.

for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts.

Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?

Therefore, I will always remind you of these things, although you know them and are firmly grounded in the truth that you already have.

You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

They did not do as I expected but even more; they first by God's will gave themselves to the Lord, and then to me;