1 Corinthians 15:20
But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.
2 Corinthians 8:2-5
Amid a severe ordeal of trouble, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty together have poured out a flood of rich generosity;
James 1:18
It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
Revelation 14:4
They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.