and knew her not until she brought forth her son, the firstborn. And he called his name JESUS.

And she brought forth her son, the firstborn, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the feed trough, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers.

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

By faith he performed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who was destroying the firstborn would not touch them.

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood