Romans 11:18

do not boast against those branches (since if you do boast—it is not you who support the root but the root you).

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,

19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

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Cross References

Luke 18:9Then He told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:

John 10:16I also have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Romans 4:16For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

1 Corinthians 10:12So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall!

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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