But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.

So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.

And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

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

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--

And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

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

Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

This is the first and greatest rule.

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

But all these things are the first of the troubles.

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;

And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.

And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?

And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.

But from the first, male and female made he them.

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;

You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.