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? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto 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, since I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14. If by any means I may provoke to envy them who are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18. Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19. You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not arrogant, but fear:
21. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also not spare you.
22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.