²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

¹⁶ For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

²⁰ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

²³ But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.