Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to {the image of} Baal.
Now if the fall of them {be} the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? {diminishing: or, decay, or, loss}
If by any means I may provoke to emulation {them which are} my flesh, and might save some of them.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; {among them: or, for them}
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
For if God spared not the natural branches, {take heed} lest he also spare not thee.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural {branches}, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
For of him, and through him, and to him, {are} all things: to whom {be} glory for ever. Amen. {whom: Gr. him}
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
So we, {being} many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.