'First' in the Bible

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation,By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?

whenever I go to Spain—for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—

also greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.