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

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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

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

Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Thou bearest

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

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

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

General references

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?