'First' in the Bible

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

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

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."

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

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

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

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

This is the first and great commandment.

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.