Romans 11:16

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.

Romans 11:17

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

James 1:18

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Revelation 14:4

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

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For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

If the first-fruit

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If the first-fruit

James 1:18
It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
Revelation 14:4
They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

And if

Romans 11:17
Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.