Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
2 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “first” →
And this they did , not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
