And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South.
Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;
And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;
The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.
Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.
He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.
To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;
And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.
And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
And the first went, and let what was in his vessel come down on the earth; and it became an evil poisoning wound on the men who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image.
The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.
I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.
Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.
The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.
I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.
I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living:
After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come.
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second like an ox, and the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.
The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--
And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.
First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.
But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:
Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
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