Quotes About First fruits

14If you bring a meal offering of first fruits to the Lord, you shall bring new ears parched with fire, grits of the fresh grain, as your meal offering of first fruits. 15You shall add oil to it and lay frankincense on it; it is a meal offering. 16And the priest shall turn a token portion of it into smoke: some of the grits and oil, with all of the frankincense, as an offering by fire to the Lord.

ANNATS  (A'NNATS)   n.s. without singular.[annates, Lat.]1. First fruits; because the rate of first fruits paid of spiritual livings, is after one year's profit.Cowell.2. Masses said in the Romish church for the space of a year, or for any other time, either for the soul of a person deceased, or for the benefit of a person living.Ayliffe'sParergon.

Repentance for sin is the first fruits of the working of the Holy Spirit in the life. It

In fact, Christ's resurrection was itself the first act of the final resurrection. It is the "first fruits" of which the eschatological resurrection will be the harvest (1 Cor. 15:20). Therefore

The full imagination transforms the offering of first fruits into one of the archetypes of the human mind: the identification of the created thing with the God who made it. The Bible teaches us to read like this: it is the primer of a cultured and civilized man.

Romans 8:22-23, where Paul refers to believers as having received "the first fruits [aparch?] of the Spirit," a present inward impartation of new divine energy that makes them also long earnestly for the completion of their salvation in "the redemption of our bodies.

Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!

For this life is one of first fruits, not of tithes.

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.