Romans 11:8-24

⁸(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.

⁹And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

¹¹I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

¹³For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

¹⁴If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be , but life from the dead?

¹⁶For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy : and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.

²⁰Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

²¹For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

²²Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou shalt continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be ingrafted: for God is able to ingraft them again.

²⁴For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast ingrafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches , be grafted into their own olive-tree?