25 Bible Verses about Being First

And the first came forth red all over like a hairy garment, and they called his name Esau.

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand. And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred eighty-six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies. They shall set forth first.

And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall come to destruction.

The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

And Saul built an altar to LORD; the same was the first altar that he built to LORD.

He who pleads his case first [seems] just, but his neighbor comes and searches him out.

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

Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou will see clearly to take out the speck from thy brother's eye.

Or how can thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow me to take out the speck that is in thine eye, when thou thyself do not see the beam in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou wil

Then it goes, and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, it dwells there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

For the earth bears fruit spontaneously, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

And Jesus said to her, Allow the children first be filled, for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the house dogs.

And having sat down, he called the twelve, and he says to them, If any man wants to be first, he will be last of all, and helper of all.

And one of the scholars having come, having heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, he questioned him, Which is the first commandment of all?

And the good-news must first be preached to all the nations.

Now having risen early morning on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

For which of you wanting to build a tower, does not, having first sat down, count the cost whether he has the things for completion?

For a heavenly agent went down at a certain time into the pool, and agitated the water. Therefore the first man who stepped in after the agitation of the water became well from whatever affliction he had.

And it was not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God,

For us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.

Let not any man deceive you in any way, because if not, the defection may come first, and he may be revealed--the man of sin, the son of destruction,

And let these also first be proven, then being blameless, let them serve as deacons.

taking memory of the non-hypocritical faith in thee, which first dwelt in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that is in thee also.

Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second.