Romans 11:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Romans 11:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 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.
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:
Numbers 15:17-21
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …
Jeremiah 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?

Topics

Atonement First Fruits Godliness Harvest Holiness Perfection Plan of Salvation Salvation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-32)

The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom. 11:1): “ Hath God cast away his people? Isa. the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Isa. the extent of the sentence so large as to be without reserve, or the continuance of it so long as to be without repeal? Wil…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. For--“But” if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root ... so the branches--The Israelites were required to offer to God the first-fruits of the earth--both in their raw state, in a sheaf of newly reaped grain (Le 23:10, 11), and in their prepared state, made into cakes of dough (Nu 15:19-21)--by which the whole produce of that season was regarded as hallowed. It is prob…