She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and placed him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him."

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and freed us from our sins by his blood;