And not only others, but those also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body.

Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

and the church in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and is become the first-fruits of them that slept:

But each in their proper order: the first-fruits, Christ; afterwards they that are Christ's, at his coming.

I beseech you, brethren, (for ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and

who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth: these were redeemed from among men, as the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

For the earth produces fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear: