For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—
Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.
and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.
For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,
so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,
and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
We love because he first loved us.
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
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