Romans 11:16
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.
1 Corinthians 15:20-23
But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.
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.