So ¹  the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, ²  your mina ³  has made ten minas more.’

He first ¹  found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” ²  (which is translated Christ). ³ 

The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter ¹  and reached the tomb first. ² 

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed. ¹ 

So when Jacob heard that there was grain ¹  in Egypt, he sent our ancestors ²  there ³  the first time.

Simeon ¹  has explained ²  how God first concerned himself ³  to select ⁴  from among the Gentiles ⁵  a people for his name.

There will be ¹  affliction and distress on everyone ²  who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, ³ 

but ¹  glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

Actually, there are many advantages. ¹  First of all, ²  the Jews ³  were entrusted with the oracles of God. ⁴ 

A person should examine himself first, ¹  and in this way ²  let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

First of all, then, I urge that requests, ¹  prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people, ² 

And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. ¹ 

I wrote something to the church, ¹  but Diotrephes, ²  who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us. ³ 

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!) ¹ 

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

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

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: ¹  first, Simon ²  (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

Then his lord called the first slave ¹  and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!