15. For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
16. Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
18. do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag — you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
19. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20. True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.
22. Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you — if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
23. And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these — the natural branches — be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. So that you will not be conceited, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery: A partial hardening has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
26. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:The Liberator will come from Zion;He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.
27. And this will be My covenant with them when I take away their sins.
28. Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
29. since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
30. As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,
31. so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also now may receive mercy.
32. For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that He may have mercy on all.