Romans 11:16

James 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.

Cross References

James 1:18

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Romans 11:17

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

Revelation 14:4

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women — they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

Romans 8:23

and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.