Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he may have the pre-eminence. (WBS)
3 John 1:9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. (WBS)
Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. (ASV)
Genesis 49:4 Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. (ASV DBY RSV)
1 Samuel 15:29 and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He 'is' not a man to be penitent.' (YLT)
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity. (JPS DBY WBS)