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
• 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 of you from your wicked ways.
  Acts 3:26resurrectionJesusblessing
• He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”
  Mark 9:35humilityJesusunderstanding
• Who has performed and done this,
  calling the generations from the beginning?
  I, the Lord, am first,
  and will be with the last.
  Isaiah 41:4Godstrength
• For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
  Luke 14:28debtplanningmoney
• But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
  Matthew 6:33righteousnessfoodkingdom
• For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  Romans 1:16faithevangelismsalvation
• But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
  James 3:17honestypeacewisdom
• Then the other disciple, who 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
• It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.
  Revelation 20:6resurrectiondeathkingdom
• Honor the Lord with your substance
  and with the first fruits of all your produce.
  Proverbs 3:9moneysacrificegiving
• For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.
  Hebrews 9:15lawSaviormediator
• For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
  Hebrews 3:14faithtrustlife
• For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.
  1 Corinthians 15:3-4sinsacrificeJesus
• To this day I have had help from God, and so I stand here, testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would take place: that the Messiah 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
• In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
  James 1:18creationtruthlife
• If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.
  John 15:18persecutionJesusworld
• For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.
  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17salvationdeathheaven
• He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
  Colossians 1:18churchJesusresurrection
• Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.
  2 Thessalonians 2:3-4end timessecond comingidols
• 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
• But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.
  1 Timothy 1:16eternal lifeJesuspatience
• For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has—not according to what one does not have.
  2 Corinthians 8:12encouragementgivinggenerosity