7 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Firstfruits

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.

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.

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

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.