'First' in the Bible

It also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus,

This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”

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

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first.”

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that He did not first perform the ritual washing before dinner.

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Note this: Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’

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

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

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

The first came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has earned 10 more minas.’

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

When you hear of wars and rebellions, don’t be alarmed. Indeed, these things must take place first, but the end won’t come right away.”

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.