'First' in the Bible

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness