Romans 11:13-21

¹³So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),

¹⁴if somehow I can provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

¹⁵For if their being rejected means reconciliation for the world, what will their restoration be but life from the dead?

¹⁶Now if the ‘firstfruit’ is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,

¹⁸do not boast against those branches (since if you do boast—it is not you who support the root but the root you).

¹⁹You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

²⁰Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

²¹Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either!