16If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.


In Context

13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry

14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.

15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Romans 11:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:16For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy:] and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:16For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:16And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:16Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:16And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:16For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:16and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:16For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.