Romans 11:21
Good News Translation
God did not spare the Jews, who are like natural branches; do you think he will spare you?

New Revised Standard Version
For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Contemporary English Version
If God cut away those natural branches, couldn't he do the same to you?

New American Bible
For if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps] he will not spare you either.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Romans 11:17,19 And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree: . . .

Romans 8:32 He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

Jeremiah 25:29 For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.

1 Corinthians 10:1-12 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

2 Peter 2:4-9 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: . . .

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
The Ingrafting of the Gentiles
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. 22See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.…
Cross References
Romans 11:20
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

Romans 11:22
See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Romans 11:20
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