Romans 11:16
Romans chapter 11 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Context
v.15For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
v.16This passage
v.17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 23:10
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:
- Deuteronomy 26:10
And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God:
- Proverbs 3:9
Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
- Numbers 15:17
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- Revelation 14:4
These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.
- Exodus 23:16
and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.