Bible Cross References
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Ezekiel 17:3-10
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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Lebanon- and he took the choice [branches] of the cedar;
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he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Canaan; he laid them up in a walled city.
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And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.
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And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that its branches appeared [on] it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.
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And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws. And behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and its roots [were turned] towards him, and it sent forth its branches towards him, that [he] might water it together with the growth of its plantation.
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It thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that it might become a great vine.
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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: Shall it prosper? Shall not the roots of its tender stem and its fruit be blighted? Yea, all its early shoots shall be dried up, and [that] not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear it up from its roots.
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And behold, it thrives; shall it prosper? Shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? It shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.
Ezekiel 17:22-24
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For thus says the Lord: I will even take of the choice [branches] of the cedar from the top [thereof], I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain;
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and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar. And every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow; its branches shall be restored.
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And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].
Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water; her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.
Romans 11:17-24
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in [among] them, and became a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
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do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, [remember] that you do not support the root, but the root [supports] you.
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
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Well [said]. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either.
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Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.
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And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree?