7. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8. (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
9. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
11. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13. For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14. If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15. For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.
20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: