Romans 11:16

Modern English Version

If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

Exodus 22:29

You must not delay to offer the first of your harvest and of your vats. You must give to Me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 23:16

You shall observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. You shall observe the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

Exodus 23:19

The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a wholly faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to Me?

Ezekiel 44:30

The first of all the firstfruits of all things and every contribution of all of every sort of your gifts shall be the priest’s. You shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest in your house.

Leviticus 23:10

Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you have come into the land that I am giving to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf bundle of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,

Romans 8:23

Not only that, but we also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves while eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

Deuteronomy 18:4

You must give him the first fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep also.

Deuteronomy 26:10

And behold, now I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which You, O  Lord, have given me.” Then you shall set it before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God.

James 1:18

Of His own will He brought us forth with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.