'First' in the Bible

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!"

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn."'"

The disciples asked him, "Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"

He answered, "Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things.

He said, "Yes." When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes -- from their sons or from foreigners?"

But so that we don't offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you."

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, 'Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.'

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

So the last will be first, and the first last."

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave --

"What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Which of the two did his father's will?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

This is the first and greatest commandment.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.