But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

He exercised all the ruling authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, the one whose lethal wound had been healed.

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

So the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’

I wrote the former account, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me – may they not be held accountable for it.

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

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

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’