18 Bible Verses about Being First

Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first of all; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."

Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?"

(Ere the end, the gospel must be preached to all nations.)

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ.

Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,

They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons.

for I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, as it dwells (I feel sure) in yourself.

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.