It was God's purpose to bring us into being [spiritually] by the message of truth, so that we could become a kind of "firstfruits" of those He created. [Note: "Firstfruits" here suggests either that Christians are the best of all of God's creatures (Num. 18:12), or that they were the first to be converted, with many more to come].

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture'saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.