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

General references

Romans 11:24

Bible References

Boast not

Well; they were broken off for unbelief, and thou standest by faith.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works?

Peter answering said to him, Tho' all should be offended at thee, I will never be offended.

And he spake this parable to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others.

Therefore let him that standeth, take heed, lest he fall.

Thou bearest

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be of grace, that the promise might be firm to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (As it is written,

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

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

Therefore ye are no longer strangers, and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God,

General references

For if thou wert cut off from the naturally wild olive-tree, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?