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Jesus Calls the First Disciples
As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
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Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”
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However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
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And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’
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Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
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So the last will be first, and the first last.”
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The Parable of the Two Sons
“What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
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Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
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Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them.
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Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
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The Passover with the Disciples
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the passover?”
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Therefore order the sepulchre to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”
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The Resurrection of Jesus
Now after the sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Mag′dalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre.
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Jesus Calls the First Disciples
And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.
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There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children;
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The First Commandment
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?”
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Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;
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The Passover with the Disciples
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the passover?”
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And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen.
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Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Mag′dalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
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This was the first enrollment, when Quirin′i-us was governor of Syria.
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Jesus Calls the First Disciples
While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes′aret.
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Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
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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; I pray you, have me excused.’
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So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
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The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.’
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Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children;
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The Resurrection of Jesus
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.
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The First Disciples of Jesus
The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples;
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This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
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But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that should betray him.
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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.”
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So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him;
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The Resurrection of Jesus
Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag′dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
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Jesus Appears to the Disciples
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
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The Promise of the Holy Spirit
In the first book, O Theoph′ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
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The First Converts
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”
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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
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and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.
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When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel left him.
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Paul’s Farewell Visit to Troas
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
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And when they came to him, he said to them:
Paul’s Journey to Jerusalem
“You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
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that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.”
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and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
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greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epae′netus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.
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For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
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If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
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But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
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Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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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 contributions need not be made when I come.
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Now, brethren, you know that the household of Steph′anas were the first converts in Acha′ia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints;
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For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
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“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
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thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
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The Supremacy of Christ
He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
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He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
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It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
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And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
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For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food;
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In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
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The Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuaries
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
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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 which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.
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Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.
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then he added, “Lo, I have come to do thy will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
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By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.
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and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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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 overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
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When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
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The Message to Smyrna
“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
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“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
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The Heavenly Worship
After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
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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 a flying eagle.
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The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
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The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
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The First Beast
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads.
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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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So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
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The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.
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The New Heaven and the New Earth
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
