'Last' in the Bible

Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny!

Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!"

But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first.

And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'

saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

Take [what is] yours and go! But I want to give to this last [person] [the same] as [I gave] to you also.

Thus the last will be first and the first last."

And last of all the woman died.

Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come [and] steal him and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

And he sat down [and] called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all."

But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first."

He had one more, a beloved son. Last [of all] he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died.

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first!"

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid back even the last cent!"

And behold, [some] are last who will be first, and [some] are first who will be last."

and the one who invited you {both} will come [and] say to you, 'Give the place to this person,' and then with shame you will begin to take the last place.

But when you are invited, go [and] recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose [any] of them, but raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Now on the last day of the feast--the great [day]--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."

'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me.

The last enemy to be abolished [is] death.

Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

because I know your readiness [to help], [concerning] which I keep on boasting to the Macedonians about you, that Achaia has been ready [to help] since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority [of them].

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last {you have renewed your concern for me}, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity [to express it].

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,

in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all [things], through whom also he made the world,

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you

For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.

above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person, and he placed his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life:

'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.

And I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels having seven plagues [that are] the last [ones], because with them the wrath of God is completed.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."