And the ripe fruits which were the lust of thy soul have departed from thee, and all fair and splendid things have perished from thee, and they shall not find them any more at all.

But many first shall be last, and last first.

Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

But many first shall be last, and the last first.

and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

Now when he had risen very early, the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

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

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

and it exercises all the authority of the first beast before it, and causes the earth and those that dwell in it to do homage to the first beast, whose wound of death was healed.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists no more.

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

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

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

But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.

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

Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.

Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.

Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary.

And his disciples demanded of him saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first have come?

And he answering said to them, Elias indeed comes first and will restore all things.

But that we may not be an offence to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when thou hast opened its mouth thou wilt find a stater; take that and give it to them for me and thee.

But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.

and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;

But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.

Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.

Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his brother.

This is the great and first commandment.

and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.