because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;

But, when again He introduces the First-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

By faith he has instituted the passover, and the applying of the blood, lest the destroyer of the first-born should touch them.

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him Who loveth, and loosed us from our sins in His own blood,