American Standard Version
"And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. "
— Romans 11:16, American Standard Version
“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
“If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.”
“If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.”
“For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
“And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.”
“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.
For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.