putting jesus first

⁶Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

¹⁵But sanctify Christ the Lord in your hearts, being always ready to give an explanation to all who ask you the reason for that hope which is in you.

⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him. ⁷Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving. ⁸See to it that no one deceives you through philosophy and empty falsehoods, as found in the traditions of men, in accord with the influences of the world, and not in accord with Christ. ⁹For in him, all the fullness of the Divine Nature dwells bodily.

¹⁴consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

³³Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

³All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

¹⁹And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

⁵Every word of God is fire-tested. He is a bronze shield to those who hope in him.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

⁸Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.

¹³looking forward to the blessed hope and the advent of the glory of the great God and of our Savior Jesus Christ.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.

²⁵Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them: ²⁶“If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple. ²⁷And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple. ²⁸For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it? ²⁹Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him, ³⁰saying: ‘This man began to build what he was not able to finish.’

⁸I know your works. Behold, I have set an open door before you, which no one is able to close. For you have little power, and you have observed my word, and you have not denied my name.

¹⁶For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first.

³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be.