Romans 11:16 Parallel Translations

If the first handful of dough is holy, the whole batch of dough is holy. If the root is holy, the branches are holy.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Romans 11:16 Cross References

XREF:

Numbers 15:18 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where I bring you,

Nehemiah 10:37 We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the rural towns.

Ezekiel 44:30 "The first of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

11:16 {9} For if the {o} firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root {p} [be] holy, so [are] the branches.
(9) The nation of the Jews being considered in their head and root, that is, in Abraham, is holy, although many of the branches are cut off. Therefore in judging of our brethren, we must not dwell on their unworthiness, to think that they are at once all cast off, but we ought to consider the root of the covenant, and rather go back to their ancestors who were faithful, that we may know that the blessing of the covenant rests in some of their posterity, as we also find proof here in ourselves.
(o) He alludes to the first fruits of those loaves, by the offering of which the whole crop of corn was sanctified, and they might use the rest of the crop for that year with good conscience.
(p) Abraham.

PNT:

11:16 For if the firstfruit [be] holy. See Nu 15:18-21. Some explain the first fruits by Abraham and the patriarchs. It probably refers, rather, to the Jewish Christians, the election by grace (Ro 11:5). If a portion of the nation has been saved, it is an assurance that the whole nation can be saved.
And if the root [be] holy. The root may refer to Abraham. The figure is that of a tree, with the patriarchs for the root. Holy is used in the sense of acceptable to God, a common sense in the Scriptures. In Ro 11:17 the figure of the root, the stalk and the tree, is expanded.

WES:

11:16 And this will surely come to pass. For if the first fruits be holy, so is the lump - The consecration of them was esteemed the consecration of all and so the conversion of a few Jews is an earnest of the conversion of all the rest. And if the root be holy - The patriarchs from whom they spring, surely God will at length make their descendants also holy.

MHC:

11:11-21 The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. As therefore the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews, was the occasion of so large a multitude of the Gentiles being reconciled to God, and at peace with him; the future receiving of the Jews into the church would be such a change, as would resemble a general resurrection of the dead in sin to a life of righteousness. Abraham was as the root of the church. The Jews continued branches of this tree till, as a nation, they rejected the Messiah; after that, their relation to Abraham and to God was, as it were, cut off. The Gentiles were grafted into this tree in their room; being admitted into the church of God. Multitudes were made heirs of Abraham's faith, holiness and blessedness. It is the natural state of every one of us, to be wild by nature. Conversion is as the grafting in of wild branches into the good olive. The wild olive was often ingrafted into the fruitful one when it began to decay, and this not only brought forth fruit, but caused the decaying olive to revive and flourish. The Gentiles, of free grace, had been grafted in to share advantages. They ought therefore to beware of self-confidence, and every kind of pride or ambition; lest, having only a dead faith, and an empty profession, they should turn from God, and forfeit their privileges. If we stand at all, it is by faith; we are guilty and helpless in ourselves, and are to be humble, watchful, afraid of self-deception, or of being overcome by temptation. Not only are we at first justified by faith, but kept to the end in that justified state by faith only; yet, by a faith which is not alone, but which worketh by love to God and man.

CONC:

Batch Branches Dough Firstfruit First-fruit Firstfruits Fruit Fruits Holy Lump Mass Offered Piece Root Tree

Batch Branches Dough First Firstfruit First-Fruit Firstfruits Fruit Fruits Holy Lump Mass Offered Part Piece Root Tree Whole

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