Romans 11:14-18

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).