22 Bible Verses about First Actions

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1 Samuel 14:35

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

Numbers 10:13

So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Matthew 7:5

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.

Matthew 23:26

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

Luke 2:2

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Luke 9:59

And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

Luke 9:61

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.”

Luke 10:5

Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

Luke 14:28

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?

Luke 14:31

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 17:25

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

John 2:10

and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

Acts 1:1

The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

Acts 7:12

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

Revelation 9:12

The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

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