A moment in scripture
Romans 11:18
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Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
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The surrounding passage
- Romans 11:16
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- Romans 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;
- Romans 11:19
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
- Romans 11:20
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.