Priorities

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. — read the full passage →

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. — read the full passage →

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. — read the full passage →

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Jesus wept.

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.