Bible Verses about Putting God First

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Putting God First? Discover the top Bible verses about Putting God First from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Putting God First to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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Romans 1:16

Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
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Matthew 6:33

Your Daily Verse - Matthew 6:33
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Matthew 22:37

Love the Lord
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
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Galatians 2:20

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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John 3:16

You Are Loved
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Matthew 6:31-33

Your Daily Verse - Matthew 6:33
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
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1 Corinthians 1:18

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Revelation 2:4

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
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Hebrews 12:2

Your Daily Verse - Hebrews 12:2
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Matthew 6:24

Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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Colossians 3:1-4

Colossians 3:2 - Things Above
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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Romans 1:20

20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
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Romans 15:13

May God fill ALL of you with joy on this wonderful day! - Romans 15:13
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 15:18-19

18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—
19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
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Ephesians 3:7

7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power.
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Romans 9:22

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
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Deuteronomy 6:5

5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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Malachi 3:10

Give all you have, and have faith that God will provide the rest!
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
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John 3:30

John 3:30
30 He must become greater; I must become less.”
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Matthew 6:19-21

For where your treasure is...
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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John 15:5

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
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Matthew 24:12

12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
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Acts 20:35

35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
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Proverbs 16:3

Proverbs 16:3
3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
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Romans 8:5

5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
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Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13 - I Can Do All Things
13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
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2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Your Daily Verse - 2 Corinthians 12:9
7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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