11 Bible Verses about Branches, Figurative Uses
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My roots will have access to water,
and the dew will rest on my branches all night.
Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine beside a spring;
its branches climb over the wall.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. 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, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. read more.
Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
Then the word of the Lord came to me, asking, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
I replied, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I watch over My word to accomplish it.”
So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,
palm branch and reed in a single day.
The head is the elder, the honored one;
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.
Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.
Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this:
There was a tree in the middle of the earth,
and its height was great.
The tree grew large and strong;
its top reached to the sky,
and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant,
and on it was food for all.
Wild animals found shelter under it,
the birds of the air lived in its branches,
and every creature was fed from it.
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