World English Bible
"If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches."
— Romans 11:16, World English Bible
“For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.”
“And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and 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.”
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."