Romans 11:21
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 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.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
- KJV
- For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
- WEB
- for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- ASV
- for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
- DARBY
- if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.
- BLB
- For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you.
- ÅB
- Om Gud ikke sparte de naturlige greinene, vil han heller ikke spare deg.
- OTB
- For hvis Gud ikke sparte de naturlige grenene, vil Han heller ikke spare deg.
- B1930
- for sparte Gud ikke de naturlige grener, da vil han heller ikke spare dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 49:12
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
Read in context2 Peter 2:4–9
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Read in contextJeremiah 25:29
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read in contextRomans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Read in contextJude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Read in contextRomans 11:19
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:1–12
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
Read in contextRomans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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