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Romans 11:21
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If God didn't hesitate to cut his own people off, don't think you are somehow immune if you turn your back.
for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.
for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed left he also spare not thee.
Do not be puffed up with pride. Tremble rather--for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heede least hee also spare not thee.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear that it may be He will not spare you either.
Be not thou hye mynded, but feare, seynge God hath not spared the naturall braunches, lest he also spare not the.
lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.
If God didn't think twice about taking pruning shears to the natural branches, why would he hesitate over you? He wouldn't give it a second thought. Make sure you stay alert to these qualities of gentle kindness and ruthless severity that exist side by side in God—ruthless with the deadwood, gentle with the grafted shoot. But don't presume on this gentleness. The moment you become deadwood, you're out of there.
for if God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], He will not spare you either.
for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
Be not hye mynded but feare seynge that God spared not the naturall braunches lest haply he also spare not the.
for if God didn't spare the natural branches, lest neither will he spare you.
For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.
for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
If God did not let the natural branches of that tree stay, then he will not let you stay if you don't believe.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.
If God cut away those natural branches, couldn't he do the same to you?
For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly won't spare you!
For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
For if God spared not the naturall branches, take heede, least he also spare not thee.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, it may well be he will not spare you.
for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you either.
If Aloha spared not them who were branches by nature, (take heed) lest he spare not thee.
For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
For if God did not spare the original branches, he won't spare you either.
God did not keep the first branches (who are the Jews) on the tree. Then watch, or He will not keep you on the tree.
for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
For, if, God, hath not spared, the natural branches, neither, thee, will he spare!
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
For seyng that God spared not the naturall braunches [take heede] lest it come to passe, that he spare not thee.
If God did not let the natural branches of that tree stay, he will not let you stay if you stop believing.
for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
God did not spare the Jews, who are like natural branches; do you think he will spare you?
but drede thou, for if God sparide not the kyndli braunchis, lest perauenture he spare not thee.
Contextual Overview
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if God: Romans 11:17, Romans 11:19, Romans 8:32, Jeremiah 25:29, Jeremiah 49:12, 1 Corinthians 10:1-12, 2 Peter 2:4-9, Jude 1:5
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:20 - will not spare Isaiah 30:14 - he shall not Ezekiel 5:11 - neither shall Hebrews 3:12 - Take
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For if God spared not the natural branches,.... That is, executed his righteous judgments, inflicted due punishment upon the Jews, unchurched them, and stripped them of those privileges they enjoyed in a church state; who were the natural descendants of Abraham; were naturally, and as born into the world, in a national church state and in that national covenant God made with that people; to whom belonged a national adoption, in which sense they were the sons of God, his firstborn; they were chosen by him as a special and peculiar people, to very great favours and privileges; they were Christ's own, he came of them according to the flesh, and was particularly sent unto them, and ministered among them; wherefore, if, at last, God did not spare this people, though he had for a long time done it, but stirred up all his wrath against them, they disbelieving his Son, rejecting and despising the Messiah, and salvation by him, this should awaken the fear, care, and caution of the Gentiles in a church state, lest if they behave not well, he should deal in like manner with them:
take heed lest he also spare not thee; for whatever was done to the Jews in former or latter times, are written for the instruction and admonition of Gentiles; and the use they are to make thereof is, to be careful and cautious, lest by imbibing principles derogatory from the grace of God and glory of Christ, or by an unbecoming walk and conversation they provoke the Lord to unchurch them as he has done the Jews before them; and which they may the rather fear, since the Jews were the natural branches, and they formerly strangers and aliens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For if God ... - If God did not refrain from rejecting the Jews who became unbelievers, assuredly he will not refrain from rejecting you in the same circumstances. It may be supposed that he will be quite as ready to reject the ingrafted branches, as to cast off those which belonged to the parent stock. The situation of the Gentiles is not such as to give them any security over the condition of the rejected Jew.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 21. For if God spared not the natural branches — If He, in his infinite justice and holiness, could not tolerate sin in the people whom he foreknew, whom he had so long loved, cherished, miraculously preserved and blessed; take heed lest he also spare not thee. Be convinced that the same righteous principle in him will cause him to act towards you as he has acted towards them, if you sin after the similitude of their transgression; and to this, self-sufficiency and self-confidence will soon lead you. Remember, therefore, the rock whence you were hewn, and the hole of the pit whence ye were digged. Depend incessantly on God's free grace, that ye may abide in his favour.
