Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’
Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’
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?
Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’
Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.
And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
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.”
But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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.
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.
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