In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

These are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women, for they are as pure as virgins, These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb,

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

So you must recognize them by their fruits.

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

He exercises the full authority of the first wild beast in his presence; he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first wild beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.

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

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those first will be last."

Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

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

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."

Now I will give you my opinion on this matter. For this is for your interest, because you were not only the first to do anything about it, but the first to want to do so; you started it a year ago.

Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.