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Romans 11:21 KJV
Romans · chapter 11 · verse 21
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.Romans 11:21 · King James Version
Romans 11:21 in context
19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- brancheskladosa young tender shoot, broken off for grafting, a branch, as the Jewish patriarchs are…G2798 →
- brancheskatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- naturalphysisnature, the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature, as opposed to what is…G5449 →
- sparedpheidomaito spare, to abstainG5339 →
- lestpōsby any means, at all, perhapsG4458 →
- lestmē pōslest, lest somehow, that perhapsG3381 →
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The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Is the extent of the sentence so large as to be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-32