17 Bible Verses about Being First

"But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

"Then it goes off and fetches seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first."

Of its own accord the earth bears its crops; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

"Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

So he sat down and called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and the servant of all."

Just then up came one of the Scribes who had heard them arguing, and realized that Jesus had answered them admirably. "What commandment," he asked, "is the first of all?"

But the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

"Which of you who is desirous of building a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, to see if he has the means to complete it?

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And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory.

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

They should first be tested, and after that, if they are found irreproachable, let them serve as deacons.

I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also.

(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.