Romans 11:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Lev 23:10 : 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:
Ezek 44:30 : 30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
Rom 11:17 : 17 But 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 {G2532} of the fatness of the olive tree;
Prov 3:9 : 9 Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Num 15:17-21 : 17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah. 20 Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Deut 26:10 : 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:
Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
Exod 23:16 : 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.
Exod 23:19 : 19 The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk.
Exod 22:29 : 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Neh 10:35-37 : 35 and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah; 36 also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God; 37 and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Deut 18:4 : 4 The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These [are] they that follow the Lamb whithersoever {G302} he goeth. These were purchased from among men, [to be] the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.
Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else {G1893} were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Rom 11:17-25
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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 {G2532} of the fatness of the olive tree;
18glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
19Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
22Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23And they also, if they continue not {G1961} in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are {G2596} the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree?
25For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest {G3361} ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
Rom 11:15
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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?
John 15:4-6
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4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot {G3756} bear fruit of itself, except {G3361} it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except {G3361} ye abide in me.
5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me {G3756} ye can do nothing.
6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 15:1-2
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1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
Rom 11:11-12
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11I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Job 14:8
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8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;
Isa 18:5
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5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
Jer 2:3
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3Israel [was] holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.
Jer 11:16
69%
16Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Matt 3:10
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10And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Isa 11:1
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1And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
Luke 3:9
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9And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke 13:9
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9and if {G3303} it bear fruit thenceforth, [well]; but if not, {G1519} {G3195} thou shalt cut it down.
1 Pet 1:16
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16because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
Matt 7:17
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17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
2 Tim 2:6
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6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
1 Cor 10:17-18
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17seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
18Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?
Lev 27:30
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30And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's: it is holy unto Jehovah.
Isa 17:6
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6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Ezek 17:8
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8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
Job 18:16
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16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
Ezek 17:6
67%
6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Isa 37:31
67%
31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Rom 11:5-6
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5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
Isa 6:13
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13And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
2 Kgs 19:30
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30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
1 Cor 12:15-16
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15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
Matt 7:19
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19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Gen 40:10
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10and in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, [and] its blossoms shot forth; [and] the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Exod 25:36
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36Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Rom 11:1
66%
1I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Jer 2:21
66%
21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
Exod 37:21
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21and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
Neh 10:35
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35and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;
Luke 6:44
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44For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.