25 Bible Verses about Being First

Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

Moreover, it took place while she was giving birth, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.

And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his end shall be destruction.”

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

The first to plead his case seems right,
Until another comes and examines him.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.

For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.