And another angel came from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle, And gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, For its grapes are fully ripe."

and he exerts the full authority of the first beast before him, and he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose death-stroke was healed.

"But many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

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

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the sea is no more.

But many who are first shall be last, and the last, first."

So they went out, and ran from the tomb, for they were trembling and amazed; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid??9 Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

"And lo, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

from the first day you heard it until now.

For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;

one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

By calling the covenant "new," He has made the first one obsolete; and whatever is becoming obsolete and aged, is near to vanishing.

Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.

The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.

First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,

(offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel?

But first be assured of this??hat no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts