Bible Verses about “putting jesus first”
The Bible contains 30 verses about putting jesus first across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”
“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”
“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
“Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.”
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:”
“My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”
“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”
“All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.”
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,”
“For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,”
“As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,”
“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”
“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”
“looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;”
“rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.”
“"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”
“"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.”
“So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”
“Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.”
“Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?”
“Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.”
“"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.”
“Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,”