Romans 11:18

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

Montgomery 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

17Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

19"Branches have been broken off," you say, "that I might be grafted in."

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Cross References

Luke 18:9Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.

John 10:16"I have other sheep also, which do not belong to this fold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

Romans 4:16This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham’s posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 10:12So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he 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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