19. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in.”
20. Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant thoughts, but be afraid.
21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22. See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God—if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.
23. And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own sight, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,
26. and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, “The deliverer will come out of Zion; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27. And this is the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins.”
28. With respect to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but with respect to election, they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.
29. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30. For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these,
31. so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy.
32. For God confined them all in disobedience, in order that he could have mercy on them all.
33. Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how incomprehensible are his ways!
34. “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
35. Or who has given in advance to him, and it will be paid back to him?”