Quotes about Firstborn

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.