Bible Verses about 'First'

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• But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
  Matthew 19:30reward
• We love because he first loved us.
  1 John 4:19loveGod
• God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.
  Acts 3:26resurrectionJesusblessing
• And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
  Mark 9:35humilityJesusunderstanding
• But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
  Matthew 6:33righteousnessfoodkingdom
• Who has performed and done this,
  calling the generations from the beginning?
  I, the Lord, the first,
  and with the last; I am he.
  Isaiah 41:4Godstrength
• For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
  Luke 14:28debtplanningmoney
• For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  Romans 1:16faithevangelismsalvation
• But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
  James 3:17honestypeacewisdom
• It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
  John 20:8-9miracleseasterresurrection
• Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
  Revelation 20:6resurrectiondeathkingdom
• Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
  Hebrews 9:15lawSaviormediator
• For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
  1 Corinthians 15:3-4sinsacrificeJesus
• To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
  Acts 26:22-23evangelismsufferingresurrection
• Honor the Lord with your wealth
  and with the firstfruits of all your produce.
  Proverbs 3:9moneysacrificegiving
• For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17salvationdeathheaven
• If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
  John 15:18persecutionJesusworld
• Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
  2 Thessalonians 2:3-4end timessecond comingidols
• Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
  James 1:18creationtruthlife
• And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
  Mark 12:30loveGodstrength
• And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
  Colossians 1:18churchJesusresurrection
• For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
  Hebrews 3:14faithtrustlife
• But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
  1 Timothy 1:16eternal lifeJesuspatience
• For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
  2 Corinthians 8:12encouragementgivinggenerosity