Bible verses about "priorities" | Moffatt

³⁶ What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? ³⁷ What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands,

³⁸ In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk. ⁴⁰ Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand." ⁴¹ The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, ⁴² Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

²² To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; ²³ life is something more than food, and the body is something more than clothes. ²⁴ Look at the crows! they neither sow nor reap, no storehouse or granary have they, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than birds? ²⁵ Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it? ²⁶ and if you cannot manage even this, why trouble over other things? ²⁷ Look how the lilies neither spin nor weave; and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them. ²⁸ Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him! ²⁹ So do not seek food and drink and be worried; ³⁰ pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that; ³¹ only seek his Realm, and it will be yours over and above. ³² Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm. ³³ Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy. ³⁴ For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

⁵ (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

³⁴ For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

³³ Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.