40 Bible Verses about importance

For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

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

One man esteems one day as better than another; another man esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)those, I say, who were of repute added nothing to me;

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechariah after his father,

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him;

This is the great and first commandment.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone;

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,

and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

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

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

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,