18 Bible Verses about Being First

But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

Hypocrite! Cast out first the beam out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, suffer me to cast out the mote that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! cast first the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote that is in your brother's eye.

Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself; and, entering in, they make their abode there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

The earth of itself bears fruit; first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

And He said to her, "Suffer the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs."

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

And one of the scribes, coming near, hearing them discussing together, knowing that He answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is first of all?"

And the Gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

And, having risen early on the first day of a sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene from whom He had cast out seven demons.

For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not, first, sitting down, calculate the expense, whether he has enough for its completion?

for an angel of the Lord went down at a certain period into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever, therefore, first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was healed of whatsoever disease he had].

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

that we might be to the praise of His glory, we who had before hoped in Christ;

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach.

having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith which is in you; which, indeed, dwelt first in your grand-mother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I have become persuaded, in you also.

then hath He said, "Lo, I have come to do Thy will." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second: