Acts 26:23

23 athat the Christ bmust suffer and that, cby being the first dto rise from the dead, ehe would proclaim flight both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

1 Corinthians 15:20-23

20But in fact gChrist has been raised from the dead, hthe firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21For as iby a man came death, jby a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22For kas in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then lat his coming mthose who belong to Christ.

Colossians 1:18

18And nhe is the head of the body, the church. He is othe beginning, pthe firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
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