Romans 11:17

New Century Version

It is as if some of the branches from an olive tree have been broken off. You non-Jewish people are like the branch of a wild olive tree that has been joined to that first tree. You now share the strength and life of the first tree, the Jews.

Cross References

Psalm 52:8

But I am like an olive tree growing in God’s Temple. I trust God’s love forever and ever.

Isaiah 27:11

The limbs will become dry and break off, so women will use them for firewood. The people refuse to understand, so God will not comfort them; their Maker will not be kind to them.

Isaiah 6:13

One-tenth of the people will be left in the land, but it will be destroyed again. These people will be like an oak tree whose stump is left when the tree is chopped down. The people who remain will be like a stump that will sprout again.”

Jeremiah 11:16

The Lord called you “a leafy olive tree, with beautiful fruit and shape.” But with the roar of a strong storm he will set that tree on fire, and its branches will be burned up.

Jonah 1:16

Then they began to fear the Lord very much; they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made promises to him.

Zechariah 4:3

There are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on the left.”

Matthew 21:43

“So I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to people who do the things God wants in his kingdom.

John 15:1

“I am the true vine; my Father is the gardener.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit. And he trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit.

John 15:6

If any do not remain in me, they are like a branch that is thrown away and then dies. People pick up dead branches, throw them into the fire, and burn them.

Acts 2:39

This promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Romans 11:24

It is not natural for a wild branch to be part of a good tree. And you who are not Jews are like a branch cut from a wild olive tree and joined to a good olive tree. But since those Jews are like a branch that grew from the good tree, surely they can be joined to their own tree again.

Galatians 2:15

We were not born as non-Jewish “sinners,” but as Jews.

Ephesians 3:6

This is that secret: that through the Good News those who are not Jews will share with the Jews in God’s blessing. They belong to the same body, and they share together in the promise that God made in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land that has wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey.

Colossians 2:13

When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.

Revelation 11:4

These two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.