Romans 11:21

for if God did not spare the natural branches—lest perhaps He also will not spare you.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20By unbelief they were broken off, and you have stood by faith; do not be high-minded, but be fearing;

22Behold, then, goodness and severity of God—on those indeed who fell, severity; and on you, goodness, if you may remain in the goodness, otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Read all of Romans 11

Cross References

Jeremiah 49:12For thus said YHWH: They whose judgment is not to drink of the cup, || Do certainly drink, || And you [are] he that is entirely acquitted! You are not acquitted, for you certainly drink.

Romans 11:17And if certain of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree—

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

Jude 1:5Now I intend to remind you, you once having known all this, that Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, He secondly destroyed those not having believed;

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Romans 11:21