22 Bible Verses about First Actions

And Saul put up an altar to the Lord: this was the first altar which he put up to the Lord.

They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

This is the first and greatest rule.

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.

And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.