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bbe@Matthew:5:24 @While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

bbe@Matthew:6:33 @But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

bbe@Matthew:7:5 @You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

bbe@Matthew:8:21 @And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

bbe@Matthew:10:2 @Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

bbe@Matthew:12:29 @Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

bbe@Matthew:12:45 @Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.

bbe@Matthew:13:30 @Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

bbe@Matthew:17:10 @And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

bbe@Matthew:17:27 @But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

bbe@Matthew:19:4 @And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

bbe@Matthew:19:8 @He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

bbe@Matthew:19:30 @But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

bbe@Matthew:20:8 @And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.

bbe@Matthew:20:10 @Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.

bbe@Matthew:20:16 @So the last will be first, and the first last.

bbe@Matthew:20:27 @And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

bbe@Matthew:21:28 @But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

bbe@Matthew:21:31 @Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

bbe@Matthew:21:36 @Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.

bbe@Matthew:22:25 @Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

bbe@Matthew:22:38 @This is the first and greatest rule.

bbe@Matthew:23:6 @And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

bbe@Matthew:23:26 @You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

bbe@Matthew:24:8 @But all these things are the first of the troubles.

bbe@Matthew:26:17 @Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

bbe@Matthew:27:64 @Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

bbe@Matthew:28:1 @Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.

bbe@Mark:1:1 @The first words of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

bbe@Mark:3:27 @But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.

bbe@Mark:4:28 @The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

bbe@Mark:7:27 @And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

bbe@Mark:9:11 @And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

bbe@Mark:9:12 @And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?

bbe@Mark:9:35 @And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.

bbe@Mark:10:6 @But from the first, male and female made he them.

bbe@Mark:10:31 @But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

bbe@Mark:10:44 @And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

bbe@Mark:12:20 @There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

bbe@Mark:12:28 @And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?

bbe@Mark:12:29 @Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

bbe@Mark:12:39 @And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

bbe@Mark:13:8 @Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

bbe@Mark:13:10 @And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

bbe@Mark:14:12 @And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

bbe@Mark:15:1 @And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

bbe@Mark:16:2 @And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.

bbe@Mark:16:9 @Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.

bbe@Luke:1:2 @As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

bbe@Luke:2:2 @This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

bbe@Luke:2:7 @And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

bbe@Luke:2:23 @(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

bbe@Luke:6:42 @How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

bbe@Luke:9:59 @And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

bbe@Luke:9:61 @And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.

bbe@Luke:10:5 @And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.

bbe@Luke:11:26 @Then he goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they go in, and take their places there: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.

bbe@Luke:11:38 @And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

bbe@Luke:12:1 @At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

bbe@Luke:13:30 @And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

bbe@Luke:14:18 @And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

bbe@Luke:14:28 @For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

bbe@Luke:14:31 @Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

bbe@Luke:15:22 @But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:

bbe@Luke:16:5 @And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?

bbe@Luke:17:25 @But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

bbe@Luke:19:16 @And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.

bbe@Luke:20:29 @Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;

bbe@Luke:20:46 @Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

bbe@Luke:24:1 @But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

bbe@Luke:24:47 @And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

bbe@John:1:1 @From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

bbe@John:1:2 @This Word was from the first in relation with God.

bbe@John:2:10 @And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

bbe@John:2:11 @This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

bbe@John:6:64 @But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.

bbe@John:8:7 @But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

bbe@John:8:25 @Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

bbe@John:8:44 @You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

bbe@John:10:40 @And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

bbe@John:12:16 @(These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.)

bbe@John:15:27 @And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

bbe@John:16:4 @I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

bbe@John:18:13 @They took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year.

bbe@John:19:32 @So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

bbe@John:19:39 @And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

bbe@John:20:1 @Now on the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the place and saw that the stone had been taken away from it.

bbe@John:20:4 @They went running together, and the other disciple got in front of Peter and came first to the hole in the rock;

bbe@John:20:8 @Then the other disciple who came there first went in; and he saw and belief came to him.

bbe@John:20:19 @At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!

bbe@Acts:1:1 @I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

bbe@Acts:1:18 @(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

bbe@Acts:3:20 @And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:

bbe@Acts:3:26 @To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

bbe@Acts:7:12 @But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

bbe@Acts:11:15 @And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

bbe@Acts:11:26 @And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

bbe@Acts:12:10 @And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.

bbe@Acts:13:46 @Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

bbe@Acts:15:14 @Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

bbe@Acts:20:7 @And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

bbe@Acts:20:18 @And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

bbe@Acts:26:20 @But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

bbe@Acts:26:23 @That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

bbe@Acts:27:43 @But the captain, desiring to keep Paul safe, kept them from their purpose, and gave orders that those who had knowledge of swimming were to go off the ship and get first to land:

bbe@Romans:1:8 @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.

bbe@Romans:1:16 @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.

bbe@Romans:1:20 @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:

bbe@Romans:2:9 @Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

bbe@Romans:2:10 @But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

bbe@Romans:3:2 @Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

bbe@Romans:8:23 @And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

bbe@Romans:8:29 @Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

bbe@Romans:10:19 @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.

bbe@Romans:11:16 @And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

bbe@Romans:11:35 @Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?

bbe@Romans:13:11 @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.

bbe@Romans:15:24 @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)--

bbe@Romans:16:5 @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.

bbe@1Corinthians:11:18 @For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

bbe@1Corinthians:12:28 @And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

bbe@1Corinthians:14:12 @So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

bbe@1Corinthians:14:30 @But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

bbe@1Corinthians:15:3 @For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

bbe@1Corinthians:15:20 @But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

bbe@1Corinthians:15:23 @But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

bbe@1Corinthians:15:45 @And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

bbe@1Corinthians:15:47 @The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

bbe@1Corinthians:16:2 @On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.

bbe@1Corinthians:16:15 @Now I make my request to you, my brothers, for you have knowledge that the house of Stephanas is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have made themselves the servants of the saints,

bbe@2Corinthians:3:10 @For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after

bbe@2Corinthians:8:5 @And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

bbe@2Corinthians:8:10 @And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.

bbe@Galatians:4:3 @So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

bbe@Galatians:4:9 @But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

bbe@Galatians:4:13 @But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

bbe@Ephesians:1:4 @Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

bbe@Ephesians:1:11 @In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

bbe@Ephesians:1:12 @So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

bbe@Ephesians:1:14 @Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

bbe@Ephesians:3:9 @And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

bbe@Ephesians:4:9 @(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

bbe@Ephesians:6:2 @Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

bbe@Philippians:1:5 @Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;

bbe@Philippians:4:15 @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;

bbe@Colossians:1:18 @And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

bbe@1Thessalonians:2:2 @But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

bbe@1Thessalonians:4:16 @Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

bbe@2Thessalonians:2:3 @Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

bbe@2Thessalonians:2:13 @But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

bbe@1Timothy:2:1 @My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;

bbe@1Timothy:2:13 @For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

bbe@1Timothy:3:10 @And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them

bbe@1Timothy:5:12 @And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

bbe@2Timothy:1:5 @Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

bbe@2Timothy:2:6 @It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

bbe@2Timothy:4:16 @At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

bbe@Titus:3:10 @A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;

bbe@Hebrews:1:10 @You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

bbe@Hebrews:2:3 @What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

bbe@Hebrews:4:6 @So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

bbe@Hebrews:5:12 @And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food

bbe@Hebrews:6:1 @For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

bbe@Hebrews:7:2 @And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

bbe@Hebrews:7:27 @Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

bbe@Hebrews:8:7 @For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

bbe@Hebrews:8:13 @When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

bbe@Hebrews:9:1 @Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

bbe@Hebrews:9:2 @For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

bbe@Hebrews:9:6 @Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

bbe@Hebrews:9:8 @The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

bbe@Hebrews:9:15 @And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

bbe@Hebrews:9:18 @So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

bbe@Hebrews:9:28 @So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

bbe@Hebrews:12:23 @To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

bbe@James:1:18 @Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

bbe@James:3:17 @But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

bbe@2Peter:1:20 @Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.

bbe@2Peter:2:20 @For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

bbe@2Peter:3:1 @My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

bbe@2Peter:3:3 @Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

bbe@1John:1:1 @That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

bbe@1John:2:7 @My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

bbe@1John:2:13 @I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

bbe@1John:2:14 @I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

bbe@1John:2:24 @But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

bbe@1John:3:8 @The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

bbe@1John:3:11 @Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

bbe@1John:4:19 @We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

bbe@2John:1:5 @And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

bbe@2John:1:6 @And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

bbe@3John:1:9 @I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.