Romans 11:21

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

In Context

20That is true. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.

22Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.

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Cross References

Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

1 Corinthians 10:1Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Jude 1:5Now I want to remind you, although you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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