Romans 11:22

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Summary

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Therefore

If thou

Otherwise

General references

2 Chronicles 33:24

Bible References

Therefore

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.'

"See now that I, indeed I, am he!" says the Lord, "and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

and tossed Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, for his loyal love endures,

When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.

If thou

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, "We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions."

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,

Otherwise

"When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

"But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

"Yet your people say, 'The behavior of the Lord is not right,' when it is their behavior that is not right.

and don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place -- that is, if you do not repent.

General references

His servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.