'First' in the Bible

leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.

Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye.

Another of the disciples said to Him, "Sir, allow me first to go and bury my father."

Now the names of the twelve Apostles were these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zabdi, and his brother John;

Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.

Then he goes and brings back with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they come in and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first. So will it be also with the present wicked generation."

but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.

Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"

"Why then," asked the disciples, "do the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

"However, lest we cause them to sin, go and throw a hook into the Lake, and take the first fish that comes up. When you open its mouth, you will find a shekel in it: bring that coin and give it to them for yourself and me."

"But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.

"When evening came, the master said to his steward, "'Call the men and pay them their wages. Begin with the last set and finish with the first.'

and when the first came, they expected to get more, but they also each got the shilling.

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

and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant;

Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

Again he sent another party of servants more numerous than the first; and these they treated in the same manner.

Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.

I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.

On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"

So give orders for the sepulchre to be securely guarded till the third day, for fear his disciples should come by night and steal the body, and then tell the people that he has come back to life; and so the last imposture will be more serious than the first."

After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre.