Romans 11:18
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:18 in other translations
| BSB | do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. |
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| WEB | don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. |
| ASV | glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee. |
| YLT | do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! |
| DARBY | boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee. |
| BBE | Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported. |
| Webster | Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. |
What does Romans 11:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 11:17-18
17-18. And if--rather, "But if"; that is, "If notwithstanding this consecration of Abraham's race to God. some of the branches--The mass of the unbelieving and rejected Israelites are here called "some," not, as before, to meet Jewish prejudice (see on Ro 3:3, and on "not all" in Ro 10:16), but with the opposite view of checking Gentile pride. and thou, being a wild olive, wert--"wast" grafted in among them--Though…
Barnes' Notes
But if thou boast. If thou art so inconsiderate and Wicked, so devoid of humility, and lifted up with pride, as to boast, yet know that there is no occasion for it. If there were occasion for boasting, it would rather be in the root or stock which sustains the branches; least of all can it be in those which were grafted in, having been before wholly unfruitful.
Thou bearest not the root. The source of all your blessings is in the ancient stock. It is clear from this, that the apostle regarded the church as one; and that the Christian economy was only a prolongation of the ancient dispensation. The tree, even with a part of the branches removed, and others ingrafted, retains its identity, and is never regarded as a different tree.
(s) "Boast not against" 1Cor 10:12
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 11:11-21
The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. As therefore the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews, was the occasion of so large a multitude of the Gentiles being reconciled to God, and at peace with him; the future receiving of the Jews into the church would be such a change, as would resemble a general resurrection of the dead in sin to a life of righteousness. Abraham was as the root of…
Romans 11:18 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 11:18
- 1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
- Romans 11:20
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
- Ephesians 2:19-20
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
- John 10:16
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
- Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
- Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
- 1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
- Luke 18:9-11
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
- Matthew 26:33
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
- Zechariah 8:20-23
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
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Context
- Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:18
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Romans 11:19
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Romans 11:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No te jactes contra las ramas; y si te jactas, sabe que no sustentas tú á la raíz, sino la raíz á ti. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | ne te glorifie pas contre les branches; mais si tu te glorifies, ce n’est pas toi qui portes la racine, mais c’est la racine qui te porte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so rühme dich nicht wider die Zweige. Wenn du dich aber wider sie rühmst-du trägst nicht die Wurzel, sondern die Wurzel dich. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | noli gloriari adversus ramos. Quod si gloriaris: non tu radicem portas, sed radix te. |