'First' in the Bible

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

And His disciples asked Him, “Why then 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 customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

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

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.

So the last shall be first, and the first last.”

and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;

“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.

But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

Sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

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

and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.

There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

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.

He *found first his own brother Simon and *said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).

and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.

The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.

So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be with you.”

The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.

that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,

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.

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.