Romans 11:14-23

¹⁴if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

¹⁵For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?

¹⁶Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

²⁰Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

²¹if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

²²Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

²³And they too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.