Israel was holiness to the LORD, and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

But now is Christ raised from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.

But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should 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, being the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.

I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

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, to wit, the redemption of our body.

For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.