Romans 11:18

World English Bible (2000)

don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

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  • Rom 11:20 : 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
  • Eph 2:19-20 : 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
  • 1 Kgs 20:11 : 11 The king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Don't let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.'"
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Zech 8:20-23 : 20 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; 21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.' 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh." 23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
  • Matt 26:33 : 33 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • John 4:22 : 22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
  • John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
  • Rom 3:27 : 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may 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.

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  • Rom 11:15-17
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    15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

    16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

    17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

  • Rom 11:19-25
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    87%

    19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

    20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

    21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

    22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

    23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

    24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

    25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

  • Judg 9:9-14
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    9 "But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

    10 "The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

    11 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

    12 "The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.'

    13 "The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

    14 "Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'Come and reign over us.'

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

    5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Job 18:16
    72%

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Job 14:8
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    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

  • Ezek 31:9-10
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    9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

    10 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • Ps 80:15
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    15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • Jer 11:16
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    16 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

  • 2 Cor 11:17-18
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    17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

    18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

  • Ezek 17:8-9
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    8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9 Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.

  • Ezek 19:11
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    11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • John 15:2
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    2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

  • Jer 2:21
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    21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

  • Ezek 15:2
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    2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    69%

    11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

    12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

    33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Isa 11:1
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    1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

  • Matt 3:10
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    10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

  • Rom 2:17
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    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

  • Luke 13:9
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    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Deut 28:40
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    40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].

  • Prov 11:28
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    28 He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.