Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

16And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

18Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:8A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

Psalms 52:8\52:6\The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

Isaiah 6:13And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

Jeremiah 11:16You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Jonah 1:16Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.

Matthew 8:11And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

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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