Bible Verses About Putting God First

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing .

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

And God spake all these words, saying,

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Neither give place to the devil.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.