and not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

But now, Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those who slept.

but each in his own order; Christ the first-fruit, afterward, those who are Christ's at his coming.

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.

These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they that follow the Lamb wherever he goes: these were redeemed from among men, the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.

For the earth, of its own accord, produces fruit, first the blade; then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For a good tree does not produce unsound fruit; nor does an unsound tree produce good fruit.

So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit.

A good tree can not produce diseased fruit; nor can an unsound tree produce goodly fruit.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which fruit is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

In the midst of the street of the city, and on each side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive the fruits of it.

and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers;

So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.

Now when Jesus had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

And behold, there are last that shall be first, and there arc first that shall be last.

Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers;

But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

And every one that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence; and he causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And at the proper time, he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, that he might receive from the vine-dressers of the fruit of the vineyard.

Verily I say to you, I shall drink no more of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.

and seeing a fig-tree on the road, he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves; and he said to it: Let no fruit grow on you henceforth forever. And the fig-tree immediately withered.

And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke with a loud voice, and said: Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.