📜WEB · Romans 11:21

What does Romans 11:21 mean?

"for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you."

— Romans 11:21 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

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You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

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True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

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for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

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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.

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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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For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

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