Lexicon :: Strong's G4413 - prōtos

“But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ’ he asked the first one.

“But first it is necessary that he suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

“The first came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten more minas.’

“Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

“When you hear of wars and rebellions,[fn] don’t be alarmed. Indeed, it is necessary that these things take place first, but the end won’t come right away.”

(John testified concerning him and exclaimed, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”)

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”

When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated me before it hated you.

First they led him to Annas, since he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with him.

The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and got to the tomb first.

I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

“God raised up his servant[fn] and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

“When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

After they passed the first and second guards, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and suddenly the angel left him.

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

“Simeon[fn] has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

and from there to Philippi, a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.

When they came to him, he said to them, “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

The chief priests and the leaders of the Jews presented their case against Paul to him; and they appealed,

“Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, and so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith[fn] is being reported in all the world.

There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand? ” First, Moses said,

I will make you jealous

of those who are not a nation;

I will make you angry by a nation

that lacks understanding.

whenever I travel to Spain.[fn] For I hope to see you when I pass through and to be assisted by you for my journey there, once I have first enjoyed your company for a while.

And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.[fn]

But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,