Romans 11:16

New American Bible - revised edition

If the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will maintain my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting covenant, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Exodus 22:29

You must do the same with your oxen and your sheep; for seven days the firstling may stay with its mother, but on the eighth day you must give it to me.

Exodus 23:16

You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first fruits of the crop that you sow in the field; and finally, the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you collect your produce from the fields.

Exodus 23:19

The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the Lord, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Reward of Fidelity.

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the Lord with your wealth, with first fruits of all your produce;

Jeremiah 2:21

But I had planted you as a choice vine, all pedigreed stock; How could you turn out so obnoxious to me, a spurious vine?

Ezekiel 44:30

all the choicest first fruits of every kind and all the best of your offerings of every kind shall belong to the priests; the best of your dough you shall also give to the priests to bring a blessing upon your house.

Leviticus 23:10

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest,

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree,

Romans 8:23

and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through the brother. Otherwise your children would be unclean, whereas in fact they are holy.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first shearing of your flock, you shall also give him.

Deuteronomy 26:10

Now, therefore, I have brought the first fruits of the products of the soil which you, Lord, have given me.” You shall set them before the Lord, your God, and you shall bow down before the Lord, your God.

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.

Revelation 14:4

These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb.