¹¹I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

¹²Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them?

¹³For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

¹⁴If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

¹⁵For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree:

¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

²⁰Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

²¹For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

²²See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

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