📜WEB · Romans 11:20
What does Romans 11:20 mean?
"True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;"
— Romans 11:20 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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;
don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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.
They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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