Romans 11:20
Good News Translation
That is true. They were broken off because they did not believe, while you remain in place because you do believe. But do not be proud of it; instead, be afraid.

New Revised Standard Version
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.

Contemporary English Version
That's true enough. But they were cut away because they did not have faith, and you are where you are because you do have faith. So don't be proud, but be afraid.

New American Bible
That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

Well.

John 4:17,18 The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband. . . .

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

because.

Romans 3:3 For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

Acts 13:46,47 Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles. . . .

Acts 18:6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Hebrews 3:12,19 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. . . .

Hebrews 4:6,11 Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief: . . .

and.

Romans 5:1,2 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: . . .

2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.

Isaiah 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

2 Corinthians 1:24 0

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

1 Peter 5:9,12 Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world. . . .

Be.

Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.

Isaiah 2:11,17 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. . . .

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.

Zephaniah 3:11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

2 Corinthians 10:5 And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

2 Timothy 3:3-5 Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, . . .

James 4:6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

1 Peter 5:5,6 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. . . .

Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Revelation 18:7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.

but.

Proverbs 28:14 Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into evil.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Hebrews 4:1 Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

1 Peter 1:17 And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

Context
The Ingrafting of the Gentiles
19Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. 20Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. 21For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.…
Cross References
Romans 5:2
By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Romans 11:21
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

Romans 12:3
For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Romans 12:16
Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.

2 Corinthians 1:24


1 Timothy 6:17
Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

1 Peter 1:17
And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

Romans 11:19
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