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The Ingrafting of the Gentiles

Romans 11:21

In 9 translations

BSB
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.Or He will perhaps not; SBL, NE, and WH He will not
KJV
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
WEB
for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
ASV
for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
LSV
for if God did not spare the natural branches—lest perhaps He also will not spare you.
YLT
for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
DBY
if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.Elohim
DRC
For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
GNV
For if God spared not the naturall branches, take heede, least he also spare not thee.

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  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include μή πως (“surely perhaps”); Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read φείσεται.¶ (“will He spare”); Textus Receptus read φείσηται (“shall He spare”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place μή elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: οὐδὲ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, the Greek text behind the NIV read οὐδὲ; Robinson–Pierpont, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read μήπως οὐδέ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τῶν κατὰ φύσιν κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο, οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται.
RP2018
εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τῶν κατὰ φύσιν κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο, μήπως οὐδέ σου φείσεται.
TR-Boyd
εἰ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τῶν κατὰ φύσιν κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο, μήπως οὐδέ σου φείσηται.
SCR1894
ει γαρ ο θεος των κατα φυσιν κλαδων ουκ εφεισατο μηπως ουδε σου φεισηται

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,…
  • Jeremiah 49:12For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
  • 2 Peter 2:4–9For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its…
  • Jude 1:5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
  • Romans 11:19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”
  • Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
  • Romans 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
  • 1 Corinthians 10:1–12I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same…

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