14. if somehow I may make my kinsmen jealous and may save some of them.
15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
16. If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And 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 shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,
18. do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
19. You will say then, “The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.”
20. This is correct. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.
21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
22. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God—severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
23. And these also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion,and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob”;
27. “for this is My covenant with them,when I shall take away their sins.”
28. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as regarding the election, they are beloved for the sake of the patriarchs.