Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.
New American Standard Bible
If the
King James Version
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Holman Bible
Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy,
International Standard Version
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
A Conservative Version
And if the first fruit is holy, the branch is also. And if the root is holy, the branches are also.
American Standard Version
And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Amplified
If the first portion [of dough offered as the first fruits] is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root (Abraham, the patriarchs) is holy, so are the branches (the Israelites).
An Understandable Version
And if the first part of the dough is dedicated to God, the entire batch of dough will be also. And if the roots [of a tree] are dedicated to God, the branches will be also.
Anderson New Testament
Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.
Bible in Basic English
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Common New Testament
If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole lump is holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole product: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Darby Translation
Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.
Godbey New Testament
But if the first fruit was holy, the lump is also: if the root was holy, the branches are also.
Goodspeed New Testament
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.
John Wesley New Testament
For if the first-fruits be holy, so is the lump: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Julia Smith Translation
And if the first fruit holy, also the mixture: and if the root holy, also the young shoots.
King James 2000
For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now if the first fruits [are] holy, [so] also [is] the [whole] batch of dough, and if the root [is] holy, [so] also [are] the branches.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if one piece be holy, the whole heap is holy. And if the root be holy, the branches are holy also.
Moffatt New Testament
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.
Montgomery New Testament
Now if the first-fruits of the dough Abraham and the Patriarchs are holy, so also is the whole mass their descendants. And if the root of a tree Abraham is holy, so also are the branches his descendants.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Noyes New Testament
And if the first portion of the dough is holy, so also will be the lump; and if the root is holy, so will be the branches.
Sawyer New Testament
And if the first fruit is holy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are.
The Emphasized Bible
If, moreover, the first fruit is holy, the lump shall be also; and, if the root is holy, the branches shall be also.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Now if the first fruits be holy, so is the mass: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If the first handful of dough in holy, so is the whole mass; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Webster
For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Weymouth New Testament
Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.
Williams New Testament
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.
World English Bible
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Worrell New Testament
And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
Worsley New Testament
Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Youngs Literal Translation
and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.
Themes
First fruits » First ripe of fruits, grain, oil, wine, and first of fleece, required as an offering
First fruits » Offering of, consecrated the whole
Gentiles/heathen » Salvation coming to the gentiles
Israel/jews » The salvation of israel
Partaking » Who partakes with the lord
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 11:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Gentile Branches Grafted In
15 For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,
Cross References
Ezekiel 44:30
And the first of all the firstfruits of all, and every offering of all, of every kind of your sacrifices, shall be the priest's. You shall also give the priest the first of your dough, so that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.
Leviticus 23:10
Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and juices of your vintage. You shall give the first-born of your sons to Me.
Exodus 23:16
Also the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Numbers 15:17-21
And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,
Deuteronomy 18:4
You shall give him the first-fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
Deuteronomy 26:10
And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which You, O Jehovah, have given me. And you shall set it before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God.
Nehemiah 10:35-37
and to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of Jehovah;
Proverbs 3:9
Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
James 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.
Revelation 14:4
These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.