Changing elements of a list to match another list

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I am trying to iterate through a list of list and increase the first element in each sublist until it matches an integer on another list...

list1=[[2,13,22,40],[8,13,22,40],[24,13,22,40]]
reference_list=[5, 10, 30]
for i in list1: 
    while i[0]!=i in reference_list:        
        i[0]=i[0]+1
print(list1)

Right now my output is:

[[2, 13, 22, 40], [8, 13, 22, 40], [24, 13, 22, 40]]
(Nothing is getting modified) My desired output is:

[[5, 13, 22, 40], [10, 13, 22, 40], [30, 13, 22, 40]]
(so that the first integer is increased until it matches an integer on the reference_list)

I have dabbled using the set function but I can't seem to get that to work.

Any ideas are appreciated!