24 Bible Verses about Being First

And the first came out red, all {his body} [was] like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau.

And it happened [that] at her labor one [child] put out a hand. And the midwife took [it] and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This [one] came out first."

All those counted from the camp of Judah [are] one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions.

And he looked [at] Amalek, {uttered} his oracle, and said, "Amalek [is] first of [the] nations, but his future [will be] forever ruin."

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person to kill the person, and afterward the hands [of] all the people, and [so] you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Then Saul built an altar to Yahweh; {it was the first altar he built} to Yahweh.

The first in his dispute is [deemed] righteous, [but] his neighbor will come and examine him.

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye!

How are you able to say to your brother, "Brother, allow [me] to remove the speck [that is] in your eye," [while] you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your [own] eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck [that is] in your brother's eye!

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!"

By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

And he said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the dogs!"

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."

And one of the scribes came up [and] heard them debating. [When he] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

Now early on the first [day] of the week, [after he] rose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}?

and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and [then] to us, by the will of God.

[that] we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory,

Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for [that day will not come] unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

and these also must be tested first; then let them serve [if they] are above reproach.

{remembering the} sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that [is] in you also,

then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second,