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leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.

This is the first and great commandment.

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house.

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”

Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

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.’ This is the first commandment.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’