Matthew 13:33
He told them another parable. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."
Romans 8:23
and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.
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.
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.