'First' in the Bible

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

And another of his disciples said to him, 'Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

And of the twelve apostles the names are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James of Zebedee, and John his brother;

'Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.

then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'

suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

And his disciples questioned him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?'

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,

but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'

and many first shall be last, and last first.

And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.

'And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;

'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, 'The first.' Jesus saith to them, 'Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

'Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

'And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

this is a first and great command;

'Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

And on the first day of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, 'Where wilt thou that we may prepare for thee to eat the passover?'

command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,