but did not cohabit with her as a wife, before she had-brought forth her first-born son; whom he named JESUS.

and being brought to bed of her first born, she swathed him, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

"every first born male-child shall be consecrated to the Lord."

he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation.

he himself is the head of the church, which is his body. he is the prince, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be chief.

through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born.

the church of the first-born who are enroll'd in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,