'First' in the Bible

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

But again I ask, didn't Israel understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger."

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.