Romans 11:12-20

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.