¹⁸ don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

²⁰ True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

¹⁹ So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

¹² Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

¹⁶ I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

²² You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

⁹ He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

¹⁰ "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

³³ But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."

²⁰ Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;

²¹ and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.'

²² Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh."

²³ Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

¹¹ The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.