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For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:23 ESV

And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:22 ESV

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:21 ESV

For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:20 ESV

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:19 ESV

Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:18 ESV

do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:17 ESV

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:16 ESV

If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:15 ESV

For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:14 ESV

in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:13 ESV

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:12 ESV

Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:11 ESV

So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:10 ESV

let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever."

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:9 ESV

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

over 9 years ago

Sandra.Long972

highlighted Romans 11:8 ESV

as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day."

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:7 ESV

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:6 ESV

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Romans 11:5 ESV

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

over 9 years ago

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