'First' in the Bible
leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.
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."
Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother,
Or how can someone enter into the house of a strong [man] and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong [man]? And then he can thoroughly plunder his house.
Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!"
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the season of the harvest I will tell the reapers, "First gather the darnel and tie it into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my storehouse." '"
And the disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
He said, "Yes." And [when he] came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes--from their own sons, or from foreigners?"
But so that we do not give offense to them, go out to the sea, cast [a line with] a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And [when you] open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that [and] give [it] to them for me and you."
But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first.
And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'
And [when] the first came, they thought that they would receive more, and they also received a denarius apiece.
Thus the last will be first and the first last."
"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'
Which of the two did the will of [his] father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first [ones], and they did the same [thing] to them.
Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died [after] getting married, and [because he] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother.
This is the greatest and first commandment.
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
Now on the first [day] of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come [and] steal him and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
Now after the Sabbath, at the dawning on the first [day] of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to view the tomb.
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- Beginning (218 instances)
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- Maiden (40 instances)
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