"'If thou offer a meat offering of the first ripe fruits unto the LORD, then take of that which is yet green, and dry it by the fire and beat it small, and so offer the meat offering of thy first ripe fruits.

and what manner of land it is, whether it be fat or lean, and whether there be trees therein or not. And be of a good courage, and bring of the fruits of the land." And it was about the time that grapes are first ripe.

In the one mound were very good figs, even like as those that be first ripe. In the other mound were very naughty figs, which might not be eaten they were so evil.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, "Thrust in thy sickle and reap: for the time is come to reap, for the corn of the earth is ripe."

And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire, and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, and said, "Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the earth: for her grapes are ripe."

For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.

By this river upon both the sides of the shore, there shall grow all manner of fruitful trees, whose leaves shall not fall off, neither shall their fruit perish: but ever be ripe at their months, for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary. His fruit is good to eat, and his leaf profitable for medicine.

Lay to your scythes, for the harvest is ripe. Come, get you down: the winepress is full, yea the winepresses run over, for their wickedness is waxen great.

All thy strong cities shall be like fig trees with ripe figs: which when a man shaketh, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

and with fruits of the increase of the sun and with ripe fruit of the months,

and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth: and the grapes thereof waxed ripe.

When ye reap down the ripe corn of your land, ye shall not reap down the utmost borders of your fields, neither shalt thou gather that which is left behind in thy harvest.

They began the first day of the first month to purify, and came the eighth day to the porch of the LORD: so that they had purged the house of the LORD in eight days; in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon: and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of God upon him.

Many that are first, shall be last. And the last, first."

For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

And he did all that the first beast could do in his presence, and he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were vanished away, and there was no more sea.

And behold, there are last, which shall be first: And there are first which shall be last."

In the twenty seventh year, the first day of the first Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

Thus sayeth the LORD God: The first day of the first month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the Sanctuary.

Many that are first, shall be last; and the last shall be first.

So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. For many are called, and few be chosen."

the first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and the first of thy sheep shearing must thou give him.

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be plucked out from Israel.

The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty-first day of the month at even again.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Hew the two tables of stone like unto the first that I may write in them the words which were in the first two tables, which thou brakest.

The first of the first fruits of thy land, thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. And see that thou seethe not a kid in his mother's milk."

"In the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the habitation of the tabernacle of witness,

Then said David, "Whosoever smite the Jebusites first, shall be the principal captain and a lord." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was therefore the chief captain.

Over the first company in the first month, was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And in his number twenty four thousand.

He opened the doors of the house of the LORD in the first year and first month of his reign, and he repaired them.

And on the first day of the first month they made an end of all the men that had taken strange wives.

And it came to pass, the six hundred and one year and the first day of the first month, that the waters were dried up upon the earth. And Noah took off the hatches of the ark and looked: and behold, the face of the earth was dry.

And God hath also ordained in the congregation, first the apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, then them that do miracles; after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues.

If any revelation be made to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures,

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

and every man in his own order: The first is Christ, then they that are Christ's at his coming.

As it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul," and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit:

Howbeit, that is not first which is spiritual: but that which is natural, and then that which is spiritual.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: The second man is the Lord, from heaven.

Brethren, ye know the house of Stephanas, how that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have appointed themselves to minister unto the saints:

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus, Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timothy.}

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

The first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus saying unto him, "Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the paschal lamb?"

Command, therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest peradventure his disciples come, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from death: And then the last error shall be worse than the first was."

Ye know well how that through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

That he ascended: what meaneth it, but that he also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth?

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

because of the fellowship which ye have in the gospel, from the first day unto now;

No man can enter into a strong man's house, and take away his goods, except he first bind that strong man and then spoil his house.

For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ears, after that full corn in the ears.

which is come unto you, even as it is into all the world, and is fruitful as it is among you, from the first day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God in the truth,

which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten of all creatures:

And he is the head of the body, that is, to wit, of the congregation: he is the beginning and first begotten of the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first:

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto the Thessalonians, Sent from Athens.}

Let no man deceive you by any means, for the Lord cometh not, except there come a departing first, and that that sinful man be opened, the son of perdition;

for this cause was mercy given unto me, that Jesus Christ should first show on me all long patience, unto the example of them which shall, in time to come, believe on him unto eternal life.

For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.

And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless.

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

having damnation, because they have broken their first faith.

which science, while some professed, they have erred as concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto Timothy, Sent from Laodicea, which is the Chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.}

when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice: and am assured that it dwelleth in thee also.

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

And Jesus said unto her, "Let the children first be fed. For it is not meet, to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto whelps."

And they asked him, saying, "Why then Say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?"

He answered and said unto them, "Elijah verily shall first come and restore all things. Also the son of man, as it is written, shall suffer many things, and shall be set at nought.

And he sat down, and called the twelve unto him, and said to them, "If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant unto all."

But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying,

At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

A man that is given to heresy, after the first and the second admonition; avoid,

And again when he bringeth in the first begotten son into the world, he saith, "And all the angels of God shall worship him."

how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it;

We are partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end the beginning of the first substance,

Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.

For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:

to whom also Abraham gave tithes of all things - first is, by interpretation, king of righteousness, after that he is king of Salem, that is to say king of peace,

Which needeth not daily - as yonder high priests - to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's sins. For that did he at once for all, when he offered up himself:

For if that first testament had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

That first tabernacle verily had ordinances and servings of God, and worldly holiness.

When these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle and executed the service of God:

Wherewith the holy ghost this signifying, that the way of holy things was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,

And for this cause is he the mediator of the new testament, that through death which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were in the first testament, they which were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For which cause also, neither that first testament was ordained without blood.

And then he said, "Lo I am come to do thy will o God." He taketh away the first to establish the latter.

Through faith he ordained the Easter lamb, and the effusion of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.

and unto the congregation of the first born sons, which are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of just and perfect men:

There were seven brethren and the first took a wife, and when he died left no seed behind him.

And there came one of the scribes, that had heard them disputing together, and perceived that he had answered them well, and asked him, "Which is the first of all the commandments?"

Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord God is One Lord.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.' This is the first commandment.

And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

And the first day of sweet bread, when men offer the paschal lamb, his disciples said unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Easter lamb?"

The righteous accuseth himself first of all; if his neighbour come, he shall find him.

The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.