Romans 11:16 KJV — MannaFest

Romans 11:16

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

KJV

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ASV

And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

WEB

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

YLT

and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.

DBT

Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also.

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Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.

Author: Paul the apostle, dictated to Tertius (Rom 16:22)
Date: c. AD 57, from Corinth before the Jerusalem offering

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Trees — Eden, Cross, New JerusalemThe olive tree — Israel and the Gentiles grafted.

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31 verses on the floor

Mark 10:14
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Ezekiel 44:30
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
Proverbs 3:9
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Isaiah 6:13
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

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Some by the first-fruits understand those of the Jews that were already converted to the faith of Christ and received into the church, who were as the first-fruits dedicated to God, as earnests of a more plentiful and sanctified harvest. A good beginning promises a good ending.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The figure of the "root" and its "branches" is of like import--the consecration of the one of them extending to the other.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

ROM 11:16PRO 3:9 EXO 23:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
ROM 11:16JAS 1:18 ROM 8:29-31
ROM 11:16PRO 3:9 DEU 26:2-15
ROM 11:16PRO 3:9 1CO 16:2
ROM 11:16PRO 3:9 PRO 14:31
ROM 11:16JAS 1:18 1PE 1:23
ROM 11:16PRO 3:9 PHP 4:17-18
ROM 11:16JAS 1:18 JHN 3:3-5

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