18 Bible Verses about Being First

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye.

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more malignant than itself, and they enter and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first.

Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

Then one of the Scribes, who had heard them disputing and well knew that Jesus had given them an answer to the point, and a forcible one, came forward and asked Him, "Which is the chief of all the Commandments?"

But the proclamation of the Good News must be carried to all the Gentiles before the End comes.

But He rose to life early on the first day of the week, and appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom He had expelled seven demons.

"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --

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They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord and to us.

so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself against,

And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons.

For I recall the sincere faith which is in your heart--a faith which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and then in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully convinced, now dwells in you also.

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.