4 Bible Verses about Branches, Figurative Uses

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned.

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive, boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.read more.
You will say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he spare not you.