Where it appears

• Matt 5:24leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Matt 7:5You 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.
• Matt 8:21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
• Matt 12:29Or 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.
• Matt 13:30Let 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.”’”
• Matt 17:10His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
• Matt 17:11Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,
• Matt 17:27But, 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.”
• Matt 23:26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
• Mark 3:27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.
• Mark 4:28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
• Mark 7:27But 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.”
• Mark 9:11They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
• Mark 9:12He 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?
• Mark 13:10The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
• Mark 16:9Now 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.
• Luke 6:42Or 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.
• Luke 9:59He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
• Luke 9:61Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
• Luke 10:5Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
• Luke 11:38When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
• Luke 12:1Meanwhile, 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.
• Luke 14:28For 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?
• Luke 14:31Or 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?
• Luke 17:25But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
• Luke 21:9When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”
• John 2:10and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”
• John 10:40He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
• John 12:16His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
• John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• John 18:13and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
• John 19:39Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
• Acts 3:26God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
• Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
• Acts 11:26When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
• Acts 13:46Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Acts 15:14Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
• Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
• Rom 2:9oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
• Rom 2:10But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
• Rom 3:2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
• Rom 15:24whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
• 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
• 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• 1 Cor 15:46However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
• 2 Cor 8:5This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
• Eph 4:9Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
• 1 Th 4:16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
• 2 Th 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
• 1 Tim 2:1I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
• 1 Tim 3:10Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
• 1 Tim 5:4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
• 2 Tim 1:5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
• Heb 7:2to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”;
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
• 2 Pet 1:20knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
• 2 Pet 3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,