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Romans 11:18

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glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

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Romans 11:18 in other translations

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

Romans 11:18 · World English Bible

Romans 11:18 in context

  1. 16And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
  2. 17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
  3. 18glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
  4. 19Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
  5. 20Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: