Romans 11:19

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But you [Gentiles] will then say, “The branches were broken off so that we could be grafted in.”

Cross References

Romans 11:17

But some of the branches [of a cultivated olive tree] were broken off [i.e., God’s rejection of the Jews] and you [Gentiles], representing a wild olive tree [branch], were grafted into it. So then, you [Gentiles] were able to benefit from the roots and sap of the olive tree, along with the Jews.

Romans 9:19

But you [i.e., probably an objecting Jew] will say to me, “Why does God still find fault [with people]? For who can [successfully] resist what God wants to do?”