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The Ingrafting of the Gentiles

Romans 11:16

In 9 translations

BSB
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
KJV
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
WEB
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
ASV
And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
LSV
And if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
YLT
and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
DBY
Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also.
DRC
For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
GNV
For if the first fruites be holy, so is the whole lumpe: and if the roote be holy, so are the branches.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἁγία, καὶ τὸ φύραμα· καὶ εἰ ἡ ῥίζα ἁγία, καὶ οἱ κλάδοι.
RP2018
Εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἁγία, καὶ τὸ φύραμα· καὶ εἰ ἡ ῥίζα ἁγία, καὶ οἱ κλάδοι.
TR-Boyd
Εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἁγία, καὶ τὸ φύραμα· καὶ εἰ ἡ ῥίζα ἁγία, καὶ οἱ κλάδοι.
SCR1894
ει δε η απαρχη αγια και το φυραμα και ει η ριζα αγια και οι κλαδοι

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 44:30The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
  • Proverbs 3:9Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
  • Numbers 15:17–21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD. From the first of…
  • Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
  • Jeremiah 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
  • James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
  • Romans 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
  • Deuteronomy 18:4You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
  • Exodus 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
  • Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Deuteronomy 26:10And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  • Revelation 14:4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
  • Exodus 23:19Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Exodus 22:29You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
  • Nehemiah 10:35–37We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year. And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring…

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