Romans 11:12-20

¹²That if the guilt of them be riches of the world, and the making less or the diminishing of them be riches of heathen men, how much more the plenty of them?

¹³But I say to you, heathen men, for as long as I am apostle of heathen men, I shall honour my ministry or my service,

¹⁴if in any manner I stir my flesh for to follow, and that I make some of them safe.

¹⁵For if the loss of them is the reconciling of the world, what is the taking up of them, but life of dead men? or but life to dead?

¹⁶For if a little part of that that is tasted be holy, the whole gobbet is holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

¹⁷What if any of the branches be broken, when thou were a wild olive tree, art grafted or art set in among them, and art made fellow of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸do not thou have glory against the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Therefore thou sayest, The branches be broken, that I be grafted in or I be inset.

²⁰Well, for unbelief the branches be broken; but thou standest by faith. Do not thou understand or savour high things, but dread thou,