Bible Verses about 'First'

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• But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
  Matthew 19:30reward
• Therefore, we love because he first loved us.
  1 John 4:19loveGod
• When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your wicked ways.
  Acts 3:26resurrectionJesusblessing
• Then he sat down, summoned the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he must become the last of all and the servant of all.”
  Mark 9:35humilityJesusunderstanding
• Who has performed these deeds and accomplished this?
  Who has summoned the nations from the beginning?
  I, the Lord, am the first,
  and I will be there with the last.
  Isaiah 41:4Godstrength
• Which one of you, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has sufficient funds for its completion?
  Luke 14:28debtplanningmoney
• For I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is the power of God that offers salvation to everyone who has faith—to Jews first, and then to Gentiles as well.
  Romans 1:16faithevangelismsalvation
• However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, and considerate, full of mercy and good fruits, without any trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
  James 3:17honestypeacewisdom
• Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside, and he saw and believed. They still did not understand the Scripture indicating that he must rise from the dead.
  John 20:8-9miracleseasterresurrection
• This must not be so with you. Instead, whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your servant.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• Rather, seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
  Matthew 6:33righteousnessfoodkingdom
• Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
  Revelation 20:6resurrectiondeathkingdom
• For this reason, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since his death has served to redeem the sins that were committed under the first covenant.
  Hebrews 9:15lawSaviormediator
• But I have had help from God to this very day, and I stand here and testify to both the lowly and the great. I assert nothing more than what the Prophets and Moses said would occur: that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to the people and to the Gentiles.
  Acts 26:22-23evangelismsufferingresurrection
• If the world hates you,
  be aware that it hated me
  before it hated you.
  John 15:18persecutionJesusworld
• When the command is given, at the sound of the archangel’s voice and the call of God’s trumpet, the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and those who have died in Christ will be the first to rise. Then those of us who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them on clouds in the air to meet the Lord. And so, we will be with the Lord forever.
  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17salvationdeathheaven
• For I handed on to you as of primary importance what I received: that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried and that he was raised to life on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
  1 Corinthians 15:3-4sinsacrificeJesus
• Honor the Lord with your wealth
  and with the firstfruits of all your crops.
  Proverbs 3:9moneysacrificegiving
• 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
• For we will become partners with Christ only if we maintain firmly until the end the confidence we originally had.
  Hebrews 3:14faithtrustlife
• But for that very reason I was treated mercifully, so that in me Jesus Christ might exhibit his inexhaustible patience, making me an example for those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.
  1 Timothy 1:16eternal lifeJesuspatience
• By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation.
  James 1:18creationtruthlife
• As long as the goodwill is present, the gift will be acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
  2 Corinthians 8:12encouragementgivinggenerosity
• Keep falsehood and lying far from me;
  give me neither poverty nor riches,
  but simply provide me with the food that I need.
  Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
• And whenever you stand in prayer, forgive whatever grievance you have against anybody, so that your Father in heaven may forgive your wrongs too.
  Mark 11:25prayerforgivenessFather