Romans 11:16

NET ©

If the first portion 1  of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. 2 

NIV ©

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.

NASB ©

If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

NLT ©

And since Abraham and the other patriarchs were holy, their children will also be holy. For if the roots of the tree are holy, the branches will be, too.

MSG ©

Behind and underneath all this there is a holy, God-planted, God-tended root. If the primary root of the tree is holy, there's bound to be some holy fruit.

BBE ©

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

NRSV ©

If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy.

NKJV ©

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

KJV
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NET © [draft] ITL
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is holy
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the whole batch
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is holy
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, so too
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are the branches
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.
NET © Notes

1 tn Grk “firstfruits,” a term for the first part of something that has been set aside and offered to God before the remainder can be used.

2 sn Most interpreters see Paul as making use of a long-standing metaphor of the olive tree (the root…the branches) as a symbol for Israel. See, in this regard, Jer 11:16, 19. A. T. Hanson, Studies in Paul’s Technique and Theology, 121-24, cites rabbinic use of the figure of the olive tree, and goes so far as to argue that Rom 11:17-24 is a midrash on Jer 11:16-19.