Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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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 King James verseion
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.
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 the casting away of them, be the reconciling of the world: what shall the receiving of them be, but life again from death? 16 For if one piece be holy, the whole heap is holy. And if the root be holy, the branches are holy also. 17 Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Cross References
Ezekiel 44:30
The firstlings of all the first fruits, and all free will offerings shall be the priest's. Ye shall give unto the priest also the firstlings of your dough, that God may prosper the residue.
Leviticus 23:10
"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'When ye be come into the land which I give unto you and reap down your harvest, ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest,
Genesis 17:7
Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 22:29
Thy fruits, whether they be dry or moist, see thou keep not back. Thy firstborn son thou shalt give me:
Exodus 23:16
And the feast of Harvest, when thou reapest the first fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in the field. And the feast of ingathering, in the end of the year: when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.
Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt also not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Numbers 15:17-21
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Deuteronomy 18:4
the first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and the first of thy sheep shearing must thou give him.
Deuteronomy 26:10
And now, lo: I have brought the first fruits of the land which the LORD hath given me.' And set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God,
Nehemiah 10:35-37
and yearly to bring the firstlings of our land, and the firstlings of our fruits of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
Proverbs 3:9
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstlings of all thine increase:
Jeremiah 2:21
and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?
Romans 11:17
Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Or else were your children unclean: but now are they pure.
James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.
Revelation 14:4
These are they, which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from men being the first fruits unto God and to the lamb,