And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;

and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.

and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, 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 from the fruit is the tree known.

'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

'For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

and many first shall be last, and last first.

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

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

and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed,

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,

And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;

and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

'In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,