Romans 11:8-24

⁸according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' — unto this very day,

⁹and David saith, 'Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened — not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

¹¹I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

¹²and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

¹³For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

¹⁴if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

¹⁵for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead?

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

¹⁷And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become —

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?