πρῶτοςprōtos
GreekG4413102 occurrences (KJV)
foremost (in time, place, order or importance)
KJV renders it: before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former
Where it appears(showing the first 96 of 102)
- Matt 10:2Now 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;
- Matt 12:45Then 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.”
- Matt 19:30But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.
- Matt 20:8When 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.’
- Matt 20:10When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
- Matt 20:16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
- Matt 20:27Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
- Matt 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
- Matt 21:31Which 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.
- Matt 21:36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
- Matt 22:25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.
- Matt 22:38This is the first and great commandment.
- Matt 26:17Now 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?”
- Matt 27:64Command 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.”
- Mark 6:21Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
- Mark 9:35He 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.”
- Mark 10:31But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”
- Mark 10:44Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
- Mark 12:20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
- Mark 12:28One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”
- Mark 12:29Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
- Mark 12:30you 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.
- Mark 14:12On 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?”
- 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 2:2This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
- Luke 11:26Then 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.”
- Luke 13:30Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”
- Luke 14:18They 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.’
- Luke 15:22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
- Luke 16:5Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
- Luke 19:16The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
- Luke 19:47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
- Luke 20:29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
- John 1:15John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
- John 1:30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
- John 1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).
- John 5:4for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
- John 8:7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
- John 19:32Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
- John 20:4They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
- John 20:8So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
- Acts 12:10When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
- Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
- Acts 16:12and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
- Acts 17:4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
- Acts 20:18When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
- Acts 25:2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
- Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
- Acts 27:43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
- Acts 28:7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.
- Acts 28:17After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
- Rom 10:19But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”
- 1 Cor 14:30But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
- 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
- 1 Cor 16:24My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.
- Eph 6:2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
- Phil 1:5for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
- 1 Th 5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- 1 Tim 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- 1 Tim 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
- 1 Tim 2:13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
- 1 Tim 5:12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
- 1 Tim 6:21which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
- 2 Tim 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
- 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Titus 3:15All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
- Heb 8:7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
- Heb 8:13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
- Heb 9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
- Heb 9:2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
- Heb 9:6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
- Heb 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
- Heb 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
- Heb 9:18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
- Heb 10:9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
- 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
- 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
- Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
- Rev 1:17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
- Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- Rev 2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
- Rev 2:19“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
- Rev 4:1After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”
- Rev 4:7The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
- Rev 8:7The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
- Rev 13:12He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
- Rev 16:2The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
- Rev 20:5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
- Rev 20:6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
- Rev 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
- Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- Rev 21:19The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
- Rev 22:13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.