Romans 11:16
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.
1 Corinthians 15:20-23
But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.
James 1:18
Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
Revelation 14:4
They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,