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Romans 11:16

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

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  1. Romans 11:14

    If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

  2. Romans 11:15

    For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

  3. Romans 11:17

    And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

  4. Romans 11:18

    Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.