He was saying to them, “The harvest is abundant [for there are many who need to hear the good news about salvation], but the workers [those available to proclaim the message of salvation] are few. Therefore, [prayerfully] ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts;

No domestic can serve two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the other, or he will adhere to the first and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

"Every person who divorces his wife and marries another woman becomes sexually unfaithful to her [i.e., because he is still regarded by God as married to his first wife. See Matt. 19:9]. And the person who marries someone who has been divorced by her husband commits sexual sin with her [i.e., because she is still rightfully married to her first husband].

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

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

NOW on the first day of the week, at the earliest dawn of day, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the aromatics which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

And when you hear of wars and tumults, never be panic-stricken. For this has to take place first, but the end will not come all at once."

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

And He said to another, Follow me: but he said, Lord, permit me to go first and bury my father:

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but allow me first to go and take my leave of my family.

But whatever house ye come into, first say, Peace be to this house:

And it came to pass on the second-sabbath after the first, that as He was passing through the corn-fields, his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and rubbed them in their hands and ate them.

or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother let me take out the splinter that is in thine eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see distinctly how to take out the chaff that is in thy brother's eye.

As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

AND he taught daily in the temple; and the chief priests, and scribes, and the first of the people sought to destroy him.

And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;

Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse.

But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; who was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her first marrying,

And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.