'First' in the Bible

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

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.”

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

Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.

Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last.”

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’

For which one of you, when he wants 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, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

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

The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’

Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not follow immediately.”

Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.