:TEXT: "God picked plyou as firstfruits for salvation" : B F G P 33 81 1739 1881 some lat vg syr(h) cop(north) : ASVn RSVn NASVn NIVn NEBn TEV RANK: CNOTES: "God picked plyou from the beginning for salvation" : S D K L Psi 104 614 630 1241 2495 Byz Lect some lat syr(p) cop(south) : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEVnCOMMENTS: There is only one letter's difference between "as firstfruits" and "from the beginning." The UBS Textual Committee preferred "firstfruits" because the prepositional phrase "from the beginning" is not used elsewhere by Paul while he uses the word "firstfruits" six other times, and in two of those places some copyists have changed "firstfruits" to "from the beginning."