Bible Verses About Firstfruits

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.