Romans 11:18

1 Corinthians 10:12; 1 Kings 20:11; Ephesians 2:19; Ephesians 2:20; Galatians 3:29; John 10:16; Luke 18:9-11; Matthew 26:33; Proverbs 16:18; Romans 4:16; Romans 11:20; Romans 3:27; Zechariah 8:20-23

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Boast not ... - The tendency of people is to triumph over one that is fallen and rejected. The danger of pride and boasting on account of privile...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(s) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. (s) We may rejoice in the Lord, but in such a w...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Ingrafting of the Gentiles. From Romans 9:1 onwards, Paul has written as a Jew to Jews; here he turns to the other half of the Church (see In...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Boast . Greek. katakauchaomai. Only here, James 2:13 ; James 3:14 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. But if thou gloriest, thou bearest not the root, etc. The Gentiles could not contend with the Jews respecting the excellency of their ra...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1896 NEGLECT OF THE JEWS REPROVED Romans 11:17-21 . If some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert gr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Boast not against the branches - While you are ready...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Boast not against the branches— Though the great fault which most disordered the church, and principally exercised the Apostle'scare in this Epistl...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Boast not against the (rejected) branches....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Rejection not final. A Warning to the Gentiles In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

St. Paul now addresses the Gentiles. They should hope for the restoration of Israel, because of the blessing it will bring the world, and because I...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Boast.. boast] RV 'glory.. gloriest.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(11-24) In this section the Apostle goes on to consider further the bearings of the rejection, and here, first ( Romans 11:11-16 ), he considers the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(17-24) The admission of the Gentile to the privileges of the Jew is no ground for boasting on his part. It is merely an admission. The Gentile is,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou bearest not the root. — There can be no boasting, for the privileges which the Gentiles possess are derived, and not original.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 23 ISRAEL'S FALL OVERRULED, FOR THE WORLD'S BLESSING, AND FOR ISRAEL'S MERCY Romans 11:11-24 THE Apostle has been led a few steps back...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Others Grafted in by Faith Romans 11:13-24 Paul never abandoned the hope that ultimately Israel would come back to God in Christ. He believed t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nation...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Boast not against the branches ,.... Those that were broken off: the apostle would not have them vaunt it over them, despise them, and trample upon...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Ver. 18. Boast not ] Gr. throw not up thy neck,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Boast not against the branches Attribute not thy being ingrafted into the good olive to thy own merits, as if thou wert worthy of the blessing. Bu...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Israel Yet to be Restored We have seen in Romans 9:1-33 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1-21 t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Boast not against the branches; i.e. against the Jews, who, because of their unbelief, are broken off; as if by nature thou wert better than they,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God's Purpose With Regard Both To The Jews and The Gentiles (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evid...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Has Established A True Israel Based On The Remnant Who Have Responded To The Messiah, With The False Israel Being At Least Temporarily Cast Off,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Illustration Of The Olive Tree (11:13-24). ‘The Olive Tree' is the name of Israel specifically given to it by God. In Jeremiah we are told “YH...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Do not glory over the branches. But if you do glory, it is not you who bears the root, but the root you.' The assumption here might be that Gentile...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 11:15 .—The apostle awaits a boundless effect of blessing on the world from the future conversion of the Jews, which will b...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 11:1 . Hath God cast away his people? The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if...
The Biblical Illustrator

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? The rejection of Israel I. How occasioned. 1. They stumbled at Christ. 2. Were reje...
The Biblical Illustrator

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert grafted in. The olive-tree I. Why it is a symbol. 1. Of G...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 11:1-45 (4) The Jews are not finally rejected, but, through the calling of the Gentiles, will be brought into the Chur...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A warning to the Gentile Christians:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Missions in the Epistles Romans 10:11-15 ; Romans 11:15-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS This study as a whole will give some idea of the missionary...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Boast not against the branches — Do not they do this who despise the Jews? or deny their future conversion?

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

Related Commentaries of Romans 11:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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