22 Bible Verses about First Actions

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1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.

Numbers 10:13

This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.

Hosea 9:10

When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame -- they became as detestable as what they loved.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Luke 2:2

This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Luke 9:59

Jesus said to another, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

Luke 10:5

Whenever you enter a house, first say, 'May peace be on this house!'

Luke 14:28

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose 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, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Acts 1:1

I wrote the former account, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

Acts 7:12

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

Revelation 9:12

The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!

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