and she bore her first-born son, and wrapped him in bandages, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the khan.

as it is written in the law of the Lord that every male which is a first born shall be called holy to the Lord,

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,

and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

And again, when be brings the first-born into the world he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

By faith he observed the passover and the pouring out of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood,