for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
Parallel translations
- KJV For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
- BSB For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
- NKJV For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
- NASB for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
- NLT For if God did not spare the original branches, he won’t spare you either.
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- Jer 49:12For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
- Jer 25:29For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’
- 2 Pet 2:4–9For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Rom 11:19You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
- 1 Cor 10:1–12Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
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