7 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Firstfruits

But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his proper order; Christ first, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.

In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

These are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women, for they are as pure as virgins, These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb,

Now I beg you, brothers -- you know that the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people --

Not only that but this too, we ourselves who enjoy the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we ourselves, keep up our inner groanings while we wait to enter upon our adoption as God's sons at the redemption of our bodies.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.