Not they only, but even we also: which have the first fruits of the spirit mourn in ourselves and wait for the adoption and look for the deliverance of our bodies.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and is become the first fruits of them that slept.

Brethren, ye know the house of Stephanas, how that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have appointed themselves to minister unto the saints:

Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.

These are they, which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from men being the first fruits unto God and to the lamb,

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

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

filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there wood of life; which bare twelve manner of fruits, and gave fruit every month: and the leaves of the wood served to heal the people withal.

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

Bring forth therefore the fruits belonging to repentance:

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns? Or figs of thistles?

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Therefore say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to the Gentiles, which shall bring forth the fruits of it.

Bring forth due fruits of repentance; And begin not to say in yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you: God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously,

and he thought in himself saying, 'What shall I do? Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits.'

And he said, 'This will I do. I will destroy my barns, and build greater: and therein will I gather all my fruits, and my goods:

And when the time was come, he sent a servant to his tenants, that they should give him of the fruits of the vineyard. And the tenants did beat him: and sent him away empty.

He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness - that on all parts

For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ears, after that full corn in the ears.

And he did all that the first beast could do in his presence, and he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were vanished away, and there was no more sea.

Many that are first, shall be last; and the last shall be first.

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

Many that are first, shall be last. And the last, first."

And behold, there are last, which shall be first: And there are first which shall be last."

The angels also, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day:

and from Jesus Christ which is a faithful witness, and first begotten of the dead: and Lord over the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. That thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the congregations which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet, even as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not. I am the first and the last,

Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, for thou hast left thy first love.

Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works. Or else I will come unto thee shortly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

"And unto the angel of the congregation of Smyrna write, 'These things saith he that is first, and the last, which was dead and is alive:

I know thy works and thy love, service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy deeds, which are more at the last than at the first.