James 1:18 It was God’s purpose to bring us into being spiritually by the message of truth, so that we could become a kind of “firstfruits” of those He created. ), or that they were the first to be converted, with many more to come : Note: “Firstfruits” here suggests either that Christians are the best of all of God’s creatures (Num..

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ It was God’s purpose to bring us into being [spiritually] by the message of truth, so that we could become a kind of “firstfruits” of those He created. [Note: “Firstfruits” here suggests either that Christians are the best of all of God’s creatures (Num. 18:12), or that they were the first to be converted, with many more to come].