13. I’m speaking to you Gentiles. Considering that I’m an apostle to the Gentiles, I publicize my own ministry
14. in the hope that somehow I might make my own people jealous and save some of them.
15. If their rejection has brought about a close relationship between God and the world, how can their acceptance mean anything less than life from the dead?
16. But if part of a batch of dough is offered to God as holy, the whole batch of dough is holy too. If a root is holy, the branches will be holy too.
17. If some of the branches were broken off, and you were a wild olive branch, and you were grafted in among the other branches and shared the root that produces the rich oil of the olive tree,
18. then don’t brag like you’re better than the other branches. If you do brag, be careful: it’s not you that sustains the root, but it’s the root that sustains you.
19. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."