8 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Firstfruits
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Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.
(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.
But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.
According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.
These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb:
But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)
And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.
Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.