'First' in the Bible

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man 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."

Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?"

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

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