Romans 11:8-24

⁸According as it is written, God hath giuen them the spirit of slumber: eyes that they should not see, and eares that they should not heare vnto this day.

⁹And Dauid sayth, Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling blocke, euen for a recompence vnto them.

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bowe downe their backe alwayes.

¹¹I demaund then, Haue they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid: but through their fall, saluation commeth vnto the Gentiles, to prouoke them to follow them.

¹²Wherefore if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their aboundance be?

¹³For in that I speake to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of ye Gentiles, I magnifie mine office,

¹⁴To trie if by any meanes I might prouoke them of my flesh to follow them, and might saue some of them.

¹⁵For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiuing be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶For if the first fruites be holy, so is the whole lumpe: and if the roote be holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷And though some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wilde Oliue tree, wast graft in for them, and made partaker of the roote, and fatnesse of the Oliue tree.

¹⁸Boast not thy selfe against the branches: and if thou boast thy selfe, thou bearest not the roote, but the roote thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in.

²⁰Well: through vnbeliefe they are broken off, and thou standest by faith: bee not hie minded, but feare.

²¹For if God spared not the naturall branches, take heede, least he also spare not thee.

²²Beholde therefore the bountifulnesse, and seueritie of God: towarde them which haue fallen, seueritie: but toward thee, bountifulnesse, if thou continue in his bountifulnesse: or els thou shalt also be cut off.

²³And they also, if they abide not still in vnbeliefe, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graffe them in againe.

²⁴For if thou wast cut out of the Oliue tree, which was wilde by nature, and wast graffed contrary to nature in a right Oliue tree, how much more shall they that are by nature, bee graffed in their owne Oliue tree?