Romans 11:18

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Summary

Romans 11:18

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

Boast not

1 Corinthians 10:12

Thou bearest

Ephesians 2:19

General references

Romans 11:24

Bible References

Boast not

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:

So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Thou bearest

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;

And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

but if ye are of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

General references

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?