'First' in the Bible
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Beginning (218 instances)
- Commencement (24 instances)
- First (838 instances)
- Foremost (17 instances)
- Initiative (18 instances)
- Leading (178 instances)
- Low (250 instances)
- Maiden (40 instances)
- Offset (3 instances)
- Outset (2 instances)
- Start (93 instances)
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