19 Bible Verses about First Actions

So, you should put the kingdom of God and what He says is right first [in your lives], then all these things [i.e., food, drink and clothing] will be provided for you.

You hypocrite, take the board out of your own eye first; and then you will be able to see clearly enough to take the speck of sawdust out of your brother's eye.

Then another one of His disciples said to Him, "Allow me to go and bury my father first."

This is the foremost and greatest commandment.

You blind Pharisees! First wash the inside of the cup and dish, so [then] the outside will be clean also.

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

This was the first registration made while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

And [then] He said to another person, "Become my follower." But he replied, "Lord, allow me to go and bury my father first."

Then another person said [to Jesus], "Lord, I will become your follower, but first let me say goodbye to my family." [Note: There was the likelihood that family members might try to dissuade him from his commitment to follow the Lord].

And whatever house you enter, first say, 'Let peace be upon this household.'

For which one of you who wants to build a [lookout] tower will not first sit down and calculate its cost, to see whether he has enough [money and materiel] to complete it?

Or what king, planning to engage another king in war, will not first sit down and evaluate whether he will be able, with ten thousand [soldiers], to defeat someone who attacks him with twenty thousand [soldiers]?

But first He must experience much suffering and be rejected by the people of this generation.

and said to him, "Everyone sets out the best wine first, and when people have had plenty to drink, he then sets out the poor quality [wine]. But you have kept the best wine until now." [Note: See Barnes Notes and The Gospel of John by Butler for evidence suggesting that this was not intoxicating wine].

This was the beginning of Jesus' [miraculous] signs, which He performed in Cana in Galilee. [In doing this] He demonstrated His glorious power and His disciples believed in Him.

[Dear] Theophilus, in my former letter [i.e., the Gospel of Luke] I wrote to you concerning what all Jesus did and taught since the beginning [of His ministry],

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons [down there] on their first trip.

The first Calamity is over; look, two more calamities are yet to come.

We love [God and others] because God has first loved us.