'First' in the Bible

It was the first registration made during the governorship of Quirinius in Syria;

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."

"Master," said yet another, "I will follow you; but allow me first to go and say good-bye to my friends at home."

"Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house!'

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more malignant than itself, and they enter and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first.

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

And I tell you that some now last will then be first, and some now first will then be last."

"But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, "'I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.'

"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --

Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

"So he called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked the first, 'How much are you in debt to my master?'

But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.

"So the first came and said, "'Sir, your pound has produced ten pounds more.'

Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.

But when you hear of wars and turmoils, be not afraid; for these things must happen first, but the end does not come immediately."

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

But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started)

And, on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared.