18 Bible Verses about Being First
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But seek first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will also be given you.
Hypocrite! first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then wilt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brothers eye.
How canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me take out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself perceivest not the beam in thine own eye? Hypocrite! first cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to take out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.
Then it goeth, and taketh with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.
For the earth brings forth fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And he said to her, Let the children be filled first; for it is not well to take the childrens bread and throw it to the little dogs.
And sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them, If any one desire to be first, he will be last of all, and servant of all.
And one of the scribes came up, having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is first of all?
{The remaining twelve verses, according to Tischendorf and others, made originally no part of Marks Gospel. As the passage was added very early, however, since it is referred to by Irenaeus in the latter part of the second century, it is here given, as an appendix.} [And having risen early, on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.
For which of you, intending to build a tower, doth not sit down first and count the cost, whether he hath the means to finish it?
and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God;
that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who have before placed our hope in the Messiah;
Let no one deceive you in any manner; for [that day will not come] unless the apostasy shall have come first and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;
And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they are without reproach.
when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwelleth in thee also.
then hath he said, "Lo, I have come to do thy will." He setteth aside the first, that he may establish the second.
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