Romans 11:16

New Century Version

If the first piece of bread is offered to God, then the whole loaf is made holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, then the tree’s branches are holy too.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

And I will make an agreement between me and you and all your descendants from now on: I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.

Exodus 22:29

“Do not hold back your offering from the first of your harvest and the first wine that you make. Also, you must give me your firstborn sons.

Exodus 23:16

“You must celebrate the Feast of Weeks. Offer to God the first things you harvest from the crops you planted in your fields. “You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters in the fall, when you gather all the crops from your fields.

Exodus 23:19

“You must bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the Holy Tent of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the Lord with your wealth and the firstfruits from all your crops.

Jeremiah 2:21

But I planted you as a special vine, as a very good seed. How then did you turn into a wild vine that grows bad fruit?

Ezekiel 44:30

The best fruits of all the first harvests and all the special gifts offered to me will belong to the priests. You will also give to the priests the first part of your grain that you grind and so bring a blessing on your family.

Leviticus 23:10

“Tell the people of Israel: ‘You will enter the land I will give you and gather its harvest. At that time you must bring the first bundle of grain from your harvest to the priest.

Romans 11:17

It is as if some of the branches from an olive tree have been broken off. You non-Jewish people are like the branch of a wild olive tree that has been joined to that first tree. You now share the strength and life of the first tree, the Jews.

Romans 8:23

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.

1 Corinthians 7:14

The husband who is not a believer is made holy through his believing wife. And the wife who is not a believer is made holy through her believing husband. If this were not true, your children would not be clean, but now your children are holy.

Deuteronomy 18:4

Give them the first of your grain, new wine, and oil, as well as the first wool you cut from your sheep.

Deuteronomy 26:10

Now I bring part of the first harvest from this land that you, Lord, have given me.” Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who did not do sinful things with women, because they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb every place he goes. These one hundred forty-four thousand were bought from among the people of the earth as people to be offered to God and the Lamb.