5. Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
6. But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.
7. What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
8. according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
9. And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
10. let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.
11. I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.
12. But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?
13. For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
14. if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
15. For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?
16. Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.
17. Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18. boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.
20. Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21. if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.
22. Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwisethou also wilt be cut away.
23. And they too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.