15 Bible Verses About Firstfruits
15 Bible verses about Firstfruits to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
But each has a set place in the sequence: first Christ, the firstfruits; after that, at his coming, the people who are his.
But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead: he is the firstfruits of those who have died.
And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead has made a home in you, then God, who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, will bring your mortal bodies to life as well, because his Spirit lives in you.
He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first to be born from among the dead, so that he would come to hold first place in everything.
We believe that Jesus died and rose again; and in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Just as all who belong to Adam die, so all who belong to Christ will be brought to life.
that the Christ must suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would announce light both to our own people and to the Gentiles.”
and from Jesus Christ, the witness who is faithful, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and by his blood released us from our sins,
It was his will to give us birth through the word of truth, so that we might be something like the firstfruits among all he has created.
And not creation alone. We ourselves, who have the Spirit as the first share of the harvest, also groan within ourselves while we long for our adoption as children, when our body will be redeemed.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Out of his great mercy he has given us a new birth. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead he has brought us into a hope that is alive,
Truly, truly, I tell you, if a grain of wheat does not fall into the ground and die, it stays just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
For since death came by way of a human being, the resurrection of the dead also comes by way of a human being.
The Son is the image of the unseen God, the firstborn who stands above all creation.
and the one who lives. I was dead, and see, I am alive for all the ages to come, and the keys of death and Hades are mine.