Romans 11:18
do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!
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- Rom 11:20 : 20 by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
- 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.
- Gal 3:29 : 29 and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
- Eph 2:19-20 : 19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone',
- 1 Kgs 20:11 : 11 And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Speak ye: let not him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing `his armour'.'
- Prov 16:18 : 18 Before destruction `is' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
- Zech 8:20-23 : 20 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet come do peoples, and inhabitants of many cities, 21 Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts -- I go, even I. 22 Yea, come in have many peoples, and mighty nations, To seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to appease the face of Jehovah. 23 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: In those days take hold do ten men of all languages of the nations, Yea, they have taken hold on the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying: We go with you, for we heard God `is' with you!
- Matt 26:33 : 33 And Peter answering said to him, `Even if all shall be stumbled at thee, I will never be stumbled.'
- Luke 18:9-9 : 9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: 10 `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
- John 4:22 : 22 ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
- John 10:16 : 16 and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
- Rom 3:27 : 27 Where then `is' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:
- Rom 4:16 : 16 Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,
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- Rom 11:15-173 verses88%
15 for if the casting away of them `is' a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?
16 and if the first-fruit `is' holy, the lump also; and if the root `is' holy, the branches also.
17 And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --
- Rom 11:19-257 verses87%
19 Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
20 by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
21 for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
22 Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;
24 for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who `are' according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
- Judg 9:9-146 verses73%
9 And the olive saith to them, Have I ceased from my fatness, by which they honour gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
10 And the trees say to the fig, Come thou, reign over us.
11 And the fig saith to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
12 `And the trees say to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.
13 And the vine saith to them, Have I ceased from my new wine, which is rejoicing gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
14 And all the trees say unto the bramble, Come thou, reign over us.
- John 15:4-63 verses72%
4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
5 `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;
6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;
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16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
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8 If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,
- Ezek 31:9-102 verses71%
9 Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that `are' in the garden of God.
10 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,
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17 and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;
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15 And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,
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16 `An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.
- 2 Cor 11:17-182 verses70%
17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
18 since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:
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6 And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature, To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it becometh a vine, and maketh boughs, And sendeth forth beauteous branches.
- Ezek 17:8-92 verses70%
8 On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, To make branches, and to bear fruit, To be for an goodly vine.
9 Say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? `In' all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.
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11 And it hath strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And high is its stature above thick branches, And it appeareth in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.
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2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?
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21 And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?
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15 -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
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2 `Son of man, What is the vine-tree more than any tree? The vine-branch that hath been, Among trees of the forest?
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5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath `one' cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.
- Rom 11:11-122 verses69%
11 I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
12 and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
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16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
- Job 15:32-332 verses69%
32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
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9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'
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1 And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.
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10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.
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17 Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,
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9 and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
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40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
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28 Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.