'First' in the Bible

leave your gift there before the altar and first go and be reconciled to your brother. Then come and offer your gift.

But first be concerned about God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

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

Then another of his disciples told him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"

So the disciples asked him, "Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He answered, "Yes." When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects, or from foreigners?"

So Jesus told him, "In that case, the subjects are exempt. However, so that we don't offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth, and you will find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you."

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, "Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

"When the first came, they thought they would receive more, but each received a denarius as well.

"In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen."

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.

"But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Which of the two did the father's will?" They answered, "The first one."

Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmers treated them the same way.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that its outside may also be clean.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

Therefore, order the tomb to be secured until the third day, or his disciples may go and steal him and then tell the people, "He has been raised from the dead.' Then the last deception would be worse than the first one."

After the Sabbaths, around dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the burial site.

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

the ground produces grain by itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to everyone,

There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children.

But first, the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

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

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.

How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

He told another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."

"Whatever house you go into, first say, "May there be peace in this house.'

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person is worse than the first."

The Pharisee was surprised to see that he didn't first wash before the meal.

Meanwhile, the people had gathered by the thousands and were trampling on one another. Jesus began to speak first to his disciples. "Watch out for the yeast that is, the hypocrisy of the Pharisees!

You see, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.

Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.'

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

"Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won't he?

"So he called for each of his master's debtors. He asked the first, "How much do you owe my master?'

But first he must suffer a great deal and be rejected by those living today.

The first servant came and said, "Sir, your coin has earned ten more coins.'

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died childless.

When you hear of wars and revolutions, never be alarmed, because these sort of things must take place first, but the end won't come right away."

But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with him.

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened by itself for them, and they went outside and proceeded one block when the angel suddenly left him.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly declared, "We had to speak God's word to you first, but since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now going to turn to the gentiles.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."

but the centurion wanted to save Paul, so he prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus the Messiah for all of you, because the news about your faith is being reported throughout the world.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

There are all kinds of advantages! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the utterances of God.

Again I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Moses was the first to say, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that doesn't understand."

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first convert to the Messiah in Asia.

For in the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of languages.

If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent.

But at this moment the Messiah stands risen from the dead, the first one offered in the harvest of those who have died.

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

The spiritual does not come first, but the physical does, and then comes the spiritual.

The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.

Now I urge you, brothers for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints