and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

And if the first fruit is holy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are.

and [salute] the assembly at their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of those that have slept.

But each one in his own order; Christ a first fruit, then those who are Christ's at his coming;

And I exhort you, brothers, know the family of Stephanas, for it is a first fruit of Achaia, and they devoted themselves to serving the saints;

Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from men a first fruit to God and the Lamb,

Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit.

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

For there is no good tree which bears bad fruit, nor, again, a bad tree which bears good fruit.

The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the earth.

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

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

And he exercised all the power of the first beast in his presence. And he caused the earth and those that dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.

And I saw a new heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea was no more.

AND having arisen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven demons.

And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

No domestic can serve two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the other, or he will adhere to the first and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

But many first shall be last; and last, first.

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

and love the first tables at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues,

But many first shall be last, and the last first.

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

And at the time he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; and the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

Already he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life eternal, that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.

By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

I tell you most truly, that unless the kernel of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it continues alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.