11 Bible Verses about Branches, Figurative Uses

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Job 29:19

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

John 15:5-6

I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

Romans 11:16-19

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile, Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.read more.
You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

Jeremiah 1:11-12

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree. Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.

Isaiah 9:14-15

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Romans 11:16

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 11:21

For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

Isaiah 11:1

And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

Job 15:32

His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

Daniel 4:10-12

On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

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