7 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Firstfruits

But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

But each in his own division: ??Christ the first to be reaped; after that, all who belong to Christ, at his arrival.

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.

and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.