'First' in the Bible

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

the ground produces grain by itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

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

and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to everyone,

There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children.

But first, the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.