'Last' in the Bible

I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!"

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

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.'

saying, 'These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.'

Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.

So the last will be first, and the first last."

Last of all, the woman died.

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to 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 first."

But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first."

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

But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And after he said this he breathed his last.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

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

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at 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.

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

Martha said, "I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day."

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

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

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

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

Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

The last enemy to be eliminated is death.

So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living person"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)

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

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

who by God's power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

When I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)