Romans 11:16

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Summary

Romans 11:16

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

And if

Bible References

If the first-fruit

“You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering

at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

The Lord instructed Moses:

You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.

I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that You, Lord, have given me.

You will then place the container before the Lord your God and bow down to Him.

We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the Lord’s house year by year.

Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest so that a blessing may rest on your homes.

By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.

These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed

from the human race as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.

And if

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

I planted you, a choice vine
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.