Romans 11:22-24

Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

 

Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God

Romans 2:4  Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness

1 Corinthians 15:2  By this gospel you were saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

Colossians 1:22-23a  But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation--if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.

Hebrews 3:6  But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

Otherwise you also will be cut off

John 15:2  "He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful."

for God is able to graft them in again 

2 Corinthians 3:16  But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. (see verses 7-18)

Mark 10:27  Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." 

if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree 

Jeremiah 11:16  The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

Psalm 1:3  That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither--whatever they do prospers.

Hosea 14:6  ... His (Israel's) splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

(parentheses are mine)

 

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