However, not only the creation, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you to be the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through faith in the truth.

They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

You see, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.

It uses all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and those living on it worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

"In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen."

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.