'First fruits' in the Bible

and not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

But now, Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those who slept.

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.

These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they that follow the Lamb wherever he goes: these were redeemed from among men, the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.