World English Bible
Romans 11:16
“If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.”
Verse in context — Romans 11
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
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If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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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;
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don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
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