Romans 11:16

But if the first fruit was holy, the lump is also: if the root was holy, the branches are also.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15For if the casting away of them was the reconciling of the world, what will their reception be, but life from the dead?

17And if certain ones of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive-tree are grafted in among them, and have become a partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive-tree;

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Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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