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,

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.

So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits;

a good tree cannot bear bad fruits, nor a bad tree good fruits.

And when the time of the fruits approached he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.

In the midst of its broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles?

By their fruits, therefore, you shall know them.

They said to him, He will inflict on those men a miserable death, and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

I tell you, therefore, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation yielding its fruits.

And he sent a servant to the husbandmen at the time to receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard;

Bear fruits, therefore, worthy of a change of mind. And say not within yourselves, We have Abraham for a father; for I tell you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

and he reasoned in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have no place where I shall bring together my fruits?

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 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.

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.