22 Bible Verses about First Actions
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Then Saul built an altar to Yahweh; {it was the first altar he built} to Yahweh.
Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.
But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.
Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye!
And another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
(This first registration took place [when] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
And he said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, first allow me to go [and] bury my father."
And another [person] also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house."
And into whatever house you enter, first say, "Peace [be] to this household!"
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}?
Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.
But first it is necessary [for] him to suffer many [things], and to be rejected by this generation.
and said to him, "{Everyone} serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"
This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
I produced the former account, O Theophilus, about all {that} Jesus began to do and to teach,
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these [things].
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