“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
Romans 11:16 (KJV) |
Romans 11:16
From Romans 11, in the Book of Romans (New Testament).
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If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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;
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.