'First' in the Bible

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

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

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

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

Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

He *said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

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

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.

So the last shall be first, and the first last.”

and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;

“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.