19 Bible Verses about First Ones

So those who are last now will be first then, and those first will be last."

For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

For man did not originate from woman, but woman did from man,

The first man was made of the dust of the earth; the second Man is from heaven.

But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

But many who are first now will be last then, and last now who will be first then."

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."

So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

and whoever wants to hold the first positions among you must be everybody's slave.

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died without children, and left his widow to his brother.

There were once seven brothers. The eldest married a wife and on dying left no child,

Now there were seven brothers. And the first brother married a wife and died childless.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him.

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.