Romans 11:13-21

¹³But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

¹⁴If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

¹⁵For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

¹⁸Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

¹⁹You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

²⁰Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

²¹For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.