10. Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,and their backs be bent continually.
11. I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
12. Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!
13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14. if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.
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.