Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Christ.

But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's at His coming;

For the earth brings out fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.

Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.

For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit, neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

It is right for the laboring farmer to partake first of the fruits.

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruits, nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

And it exercises all the authority of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

But many who are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few are chosen.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer is.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

And when Jesus had risen early the first day of the Sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.

And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last.