leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.

Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, for the first lot belonged to them.

In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, who was of Median descent and who had been appointed king over the Babylonian empire –

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

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.”

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

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

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