18 Bible Verses about Being First

But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

O hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote from the eye of your brother.

Or how are you able to say to your brother; Brother, permit me, I will cast out the mote which is in thine eye, yourself not seeing the beam which is in your own eye? O hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote which is in the eye of your brother.

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having come in he dwells there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

The earth spontaneously brings forth fruit; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.

And He said to her, Permit the children first to be fed: for It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to little dogs.

And sitting down, He called the twelve; and says to them, If any one wishes to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

And a certain one of the scribes, hearing them propounding questions, knowing that He answered them beautifully, asked Him, What is the first commandment of all?

And it behooves the gospel first to be preached to all the nations.

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For which one of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sitting down count the cost; if he has unto sufficiency?

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and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:

that we should be unto the praise of his glory, who first exercised hope in Christ:

Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition,

And let them also first be proven; then let them minister the office of deacon, being irreproachable.

having received the remembrance of the unhypocritical faith which is in you; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded that it is in you also.

then he has said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second;