TSK · Romans 16:5

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.

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

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.