Verse 16

For if the first fruites be holy, so is the whole lumpe: and if the roote be holy, so are the branches.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 23:10 : 10 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into ye land which I giue vnto you, and reape the haruest thereof, then ye shal bring a sheafe of the first fruites of your haruest vnto the Priest,
  • Ezek 44:30 : 30 And all the first of all the first borne, & euery oblation, euen all of euery sort of your oblations shall be the Priestes. Ye shal also giue vnto the Priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
  • Rom 11:17 : 17 And though some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wilde Oliue tree, wast graft in for them, and made partaker of the roote, and fatnesse of the Oliue tree.
  • Prov 3:9 : 9 Honour the Lorde with thy riches, and with the first fruites of all thine increase.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his owne will begate hee vs with the woorde of trueth, that we shoulde be as the first fruites of his creatures.
  • Num 15:17-21 : 17 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 18 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into the lande, to the which I bring you, 19 And when ye shal eate of the bread of the land, ye shall offer an heaue offring vnto ye Lord. 20 Ye shall offer vp a cake of the first of your dowe for an heaue offring: as the heaue offring of the barne, so ye shall lift it vp. 21 Of the first of your dowe ye shal giue vnto the Lord an heaue offring in your generations.
  • Deut 26:10 : 10 And now, lo, I haue brought ye first fruites of the land which thou, O Lorde, hast giuen me, and thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, & worship before the Lord thy God:
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee.
  • Exod 23:16 : 16 The feast also of the haruest of the first fruites of thy labours, which thou hast sowen in the fielde: and the feast of gathering fruites in the ende of the yere, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the fielde.
  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The first of the first fruites of thy lande thou shalt bring into the house of the Lorde thy God: yet shalt thou not seeth a kid in his mothers milke.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 Thine abundance and thy licour shalt thou not keepe backe. The first borne of thy sonnes shalt thou giue me.
  • Neh 10:35-37 : 35 And to bring the first fruites of our land, and the first of all the fruites of all trees, yeere by yeere, into the house of the Lorde, 36 And the first borne of our sonnes, and of our cattel, as it is written in the Lawe, and the first borne of our bullockes and of our sheepe, to bring it into the house of our God, vnto ye Priests that minister in the house of our God, 37 And that we should bring the first fruite of our dough, and our offrings, and the fruite of euery tree, of wine and of oyle, vnto the Priests, to the chambers of the house of our God: and the tithes of our lande vnto the Leuites, that the Leuites might haue the tithes in all the cities of our trauaile.
  • Deut 18:4 : 4 The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe shalt thou giue him.
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they, which are not defiled with women: for they are virgins: these followe the Lambe whithersoeuer he goeth: these are bought from men, being the first fruites vnto God, and to the Lambe.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee, a noble vine, whose plants were all natural: howe then art thou turned vnto me into the plants of a strange vine?
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.