'First' in the Bible

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.

Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.

Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.

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

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.

Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

This is the first and greatest rule.

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

But all these things are the first of the troubles.

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.

The first words of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?

And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.

But from the first, male and female made he them.

But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.

Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.

As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.

And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.

Then he goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they go in, and take their places there: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:

And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.

Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

This Word was from the first in relation with God.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

(These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.)

And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

They took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year.

So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

Now on the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the place and saw that the stone had been taken away from it.

They went running together, and the other disciple got in front of Peter and came first to the hole in the rock;

Then the other disciple who came there first went in; and he saw and belief came to him.

At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:

To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.