17 Bible Verses about Being First

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, 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 in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

For before the end the good news must be preached to all the heathen.

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it?

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They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.

to win praise for his glory, by having been the first to believe in Christ.

You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,

They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants.

of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.