Romans 11:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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  • Lev 23:10 : 10 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;
  • Ezek 44:30 : 30 And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.
  • Rom 11:17 : 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
  • Prov 3:9 : 9 Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • Num 15:17-21 : 17 And the Lord said to Moses, 18 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you, 19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord. 20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up. 21 From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.
  • Deut 26:10 : 10 So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
  • Exod 23:16 : 16 And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.
  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.
  • Neh 10:35-37 : 35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord; 36 As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God: 37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.
  • Deut 18:4 : 4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

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  • Rom 11:17-25
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    17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

    18 Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

    19 You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

    20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

    21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

    22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

    23 And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.

    24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

    25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

  • Rom 11:15
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    15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

    5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

    6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

  • John 15:1-2
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    1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

    2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

    12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

  • Job 14:8
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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Jer 2:3
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    3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

  • Jer 11:16
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    16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

  • Matt 3:10
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    10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

  • Isa 11:1
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    1 And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9 And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

  • 1 Pet 1:16
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    16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

  • Matt 7:17
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    17 Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6 It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

  • 1 Cor 10:17-18
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    17 Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

    18 See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?

  • Lev 27:30
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    30 And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

  • Isa 17:6
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    6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Job 18:16
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    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

  • Isa 37:31
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    31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.

  • Rom 11:5-6
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    5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

    6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

  • Isa 6:13
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    13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

  • 2 Kgs 19:30
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    30 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

  • 1 Cor 12:15-16
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    15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

    16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19 Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

  • Gen 40:10
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    10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

  • Exod 25:36
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    36 The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.

  • Rom 11:1
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    1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Jer 2:21
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    21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

  • Exod 37:21
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    21 And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.

  • Neh 10:35
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    35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

  • Luke 6:44
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    44 For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.