13. For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an emissary to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
14. if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15. For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16. If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in amongst them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
18. don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
19. You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
20. True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
21. for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22. See then the goodness and severity of God. Towards those who fell, severity; but towards you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
23. They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,