Therefore remember from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first (prōta | πρῶτα | acc pl neut). If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

But I do have this against you, that you have left your first (prōtēn | πρώτην | acc sg fem) love!

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear! I am the First (prōtos | πρῶτος | nom sg masc) and the Last,

We love because he first (prōtos | πρῶτος | nom sg masc) loved us.

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become for them worse than the first (prōtōn | πρώτων | gen pl neut).

then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first (prōton | πρῶτον | acc sg neut) in order to establish the second.

Therefore not even the first (prōtē | πρώτη | nom sg fem) covenant was inaugurated without blood.

And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under that first (prōtē | πρώτῃ | dat sg fem) covenant.

By this the Holy Spirit is showing that the way into the real sanctuary had not yet been disclosed as long as the first (prōtēs | πρώτης | gen sg fem) tent was standing.

When these things had been prepared in this way, the priests used to enter regularly into the outer (prōtēn | πρώτην | acc sg fem) room to perform their ritual services;