"For if the firstfruit {be} holy, the lump {is} also {holy}: and if the root {be} holy, so {are} the branches." — Romans 11:16

Romans 11:16 · KJV

“For if the firstfruit {be} holy, the lump {is} also {holy}: and if the root {be} holy, so {are} the branches.”

— Romans 11:16

For if the casting away of them {be} the reconciling of the world, what {shall} the receiving {of them be}, but life from the dead?

Verse 17

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; {among them: or, for them}

Romans 11 — Context

If by any means I may provoke to emulation {them which are} my flesh, and might save some of them.

For if the casting away of them {be} the reconciling of the world, what {shall} the receiving {of them be}, but life from the dead?

For if the firstfruit {be} holy, the lump {is} also {holy}: and if the root {be} holy, so {are} the branches.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; {among them: or, for them}

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Cross References

Proverbs 3:9

Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Ezekiel 44:30

And the first of all the firstfruits of all {things}, and every oblation of all, of every {sort} of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. {And the first: or, And the chief}

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Numbers 15:17-21

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:10

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: {sheaf: or, handful: Heb. omer}

James 1:18

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Romans 11:17

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; {among them: or, for them}

Exodus 23:16

And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, {which is} in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.