Romans 11:19
"Branches have been lopped off," you will say, "for the sake of my being grafted in."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
In Context
20This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, and you only stand through your faith.
Cross References
Romans 11:17And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,
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 →