The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;
So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.
So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,
For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.
And when 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 the whole time,
but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.
that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”
but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, “I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU.”
If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN?
whenever I go to Spain--for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while--
also greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.
And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.
But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.
Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,
So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.
Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),
In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;
and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.
For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;
but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;
to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),
in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.
You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone;
He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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