Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

But each in his own order. Christ the first fruit, then those of Christ at his coming.

Now I beseech you, brothers (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruit of Achaia, and that they committed themselves to service for the sanctified),