25 Bible Verses about Being First

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."

All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel at the front.

Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.

The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first."

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

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

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

then he says, "Here I am: I have come to do your will." He does away with the first to establish the second.