The Act of Supremacy was then passed: thirteen abbeys were immediately suppressed, and the firstfruitsmade over to the king in place of the Pope.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
He must make the sacrifice in advance, and offer at any rate the firstfruits of His Blood to His Father.
So JESUS, of His own free will, classes Himself with sinners, and offers to GOD the firstfruits of that Blood which He will shed for them on Calvary.
Justly, therefore, is He called "the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Cor.
Genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ naturally leads to obedience to His commands; and the firstfruits of faith are embodied in repentance.
Mindful of these, the firstfruits sweet Borne by this suffering Church her Lord to greet; Blessed Jesus ever loved to trace The "innocent brightness" of an infant's face.
Philip had ministered in Samaria to another branch of the circumcision, but Africa, outside the Empire at least, had as yet no representative among the firstfruits of the cross.
And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.
Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things: 7:36.
Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the firstfruits of thy hands.
Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself with a few.
And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.
You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.
When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them.
Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines, 25:12.
What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage.
But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep: 15:21.
Salute Epenetus, my beloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ.
Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel?
And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites, 48:13.
Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.
All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance.
And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruitsof the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.
Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.
Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground bringeth forth.
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.
On the 10th of October, within a week from the first introduction, Harley promises to get the firstfruits business, over which the Whigs had haggled for years, settled by the following Sunday.
And, according to his own statement, he started for England once more with great reluctance in order again to take up the weary Firstfruits negociation.
And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord.
Numbers Chapter 5 The unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of sins, and satisfaction: firstfruits and oblations belonging to the priests: trial of jealousy.
And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites.
As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors: 15:21.
But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.
And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.
So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.
And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord, 15:20.
All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest: 5:10.
And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him, 31:42.
And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress: 18:31.
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.
Adam was not the only man who died, but the firstfruits of a rich harvest; and so, Christ is not alone in resurrection, but is become the firstfruits of them that sleep.
As Paul here says, "He is the firstfruits of them that sleep.
We may remember that the Penates were the spirits of the food itself, not merely of the place in which it was stored; it had therefore a sacred character, which is also shown by the sanctification of the firstfruits (R.
The next three days all the people came to the Quindecemviri at certain stated places, and made offerings of fruges, the products of the earth, as we do at our harvest festivals; these were the firstfruits of the coming harvest.
These were purchased from among men, the firstfruitsto God and to the Lamb.
Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is thefirstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
Jesus, glorified at the right hand of God, is the firstfruits of the cosmic redemption (Rom.
Further, they were to receive the "firstfruits of corn, wine, oil, and the first of the fleece of the sheep.
Aaron the priest and his sons, as a due for ever from the children of Israel"; and where the firstfruits are dealt with (Numb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firstfruits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
