'First' in the Bible

for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it.

And by God's appointment there are in the Church--first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

And if anything is revealed to some one else who is seated there, let the first be silent.

Was it from you that God's Message first went forth, or is it to you only that it has come?

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.

The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.

On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.