Lexicon :: Strong's G4412 - prōton

“leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

“But seek first the kingdom of God[fn] and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

“Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.

“Lord,” another of his disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”

“How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

“Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but collect the wheat in my barn.’ ”

So the disciples asked him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

“But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin.[fn] Take it and give it to them for me and you.”

“Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,[fn] so that the outside of it[fn] may also become clean.

“But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.

“The soil produces a crop by itself ​— ​first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

“And it is necessary that the gospel be preached to all nations.

[Early on the first day of the week, after he had risen, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.

“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam of wood in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter in your brother’s eye.

Then he said to another, “Follow me.”

“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”

“Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing[fn] before dinner.

Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to his disciples first, “Be on your guard against the leaven[fn] of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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

“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.”

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.”

“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.

Nicodemus (who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about seventy-five pounds[fn] of myrrh and aloes.

“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.

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.

“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.

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.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel,[fn] because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

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.

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.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

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]

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.

But what does “he ascended” mean except that he[fn] also descended to the lower parts of the earth?[fn]

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,[fn] with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy[fn] comes first and the man of lawlessness[fn] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.