Romans 11:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Romans 11:18 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Romans 11:20
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Ephesians 2:19-20
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; …
Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
John 10:16
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-32)

The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom. 11:1): “ Hath God cast away his people? Isa. the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Isa. the extent of the sentence so large as to be without reserve, or the continuance of it so long as to be without repeal? Wil…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-18. And if--rather, “But if”; that is, “If notwithstanding this consecration of Abraham’s race to God. some of the branches--The mass of the unbelieving and rejected Israelites are here called “some,” not, as before, to meet Jewish prejudice (see on Ro 3:3, and on “not all” in Ro 10:16), but with the opposite view of checking Gentile pride. and thou, being a wild olive, wert--“wast” grafted in…