“Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.”
Romans 11:18 (KJV) |
Romans 11:18
From Romans 11, in the Book of Romans (New Testament).
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For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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;
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: