11 Bible Verses about Branches, Figurative Uses

My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root, do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.read more.
Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Later the Lord asked me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "I see a branch of an almond tree." Then the Lord said, "You have observed correctly. This means I am watching to make sure my threats are carried out."

So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day. The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

A shoot will grow out of Jesse's root stock, a bud will sprout from his roots.

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

Here are the visions of my mind while I was on my bed. While I was watching, there was a tree in the middle of the land. It was enormously tall. The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land. Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures used to feed themselves from it.