4 Bible Verses about Branches, Figurative Uses

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root, you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.read more.
Then you will say, "Branches have been broken off for us to be grafted in."

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.

for if God did not spare the natural branches, certainly He will not spare you.