5. So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace.
6. But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7. What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
8. just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day.”
9. And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;
10. let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend continually.”
11. I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
12. And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?
13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry,
14. if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead?
16. Now if the first fruits are holy, so also is the whole batch of dough, and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
17. Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree’s richness,