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
εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἁγία, καὶ τὸ φύραμα· καὶ εἰ ἡ ῥίζα ἁγία, καὶ οἱ κλάδοι.
Greek NT
Quod si delibatio sancta est, et massa : et si radix sancta, et rami.
Vulgate
And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
ASV
For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κλάδος
klados
noun · 11×
φύραμα
phurama
noun · 5×
ἀπαρχή
aparche
noun · 8×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ῥίζα
riza
noun · 17×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§755"The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness…
How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions. 1. Such, then, is their system, which neither the prophets announced, nor the Lord taught, nor the apostles delivered, but of which they boast that beyond all others they have a perfect knowledge. They gather their views from other sources than the Scriptures; and, to use a common proverb, they str…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210219.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Was the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, sanctified before her birth from the womb? Was she sanctified before animation? Was the fomes of sin entirely taken away from her in virtue of this sanctification? Was the result of this sanctification that she never sinned? In virtue of this sanctification, did she receive the fulness of grace? Was it proper to her to be thus sanctified? …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:14 — For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
- Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
- Acts 16:31 — And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
- Deut 26:2 — That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which t
- Ezek 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
- Isa 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
- Isa 27:6 — He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- Jas 1:18 — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- Jas 3:12 — Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
- Jer 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.
- Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Jer 32:39 — And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- Lev 21:15 — Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
- Lev 23:10 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your ha
- 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.
- Num 15:17 — And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Prov 3:9 — Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- Rom 11:17 — And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Zech 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast