Romans 11:18-25

¹⁸do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

²⁰by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²¹for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

²²Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²³And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

²⁴for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

²⁵For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret — that ye may not be wise in your own conceits — that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;