and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption.

Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole product: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

and'salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ.

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.

[But] how can they appeal to Him if they have not [first] believed in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have not [first] heard [about Him]? And how can they hear [about Him] if there is no preacher?

For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--