9. Dawiḏ also says, “Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block and a recompense to them,
10. let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and bow down their back always.”
11. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Let it not be! But by their fall deliverance has come to the gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12. And if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the gentiles, how much more their completeness!
13. For I speak to you, the gentiles, inasmuch as I am an emissary to the gentiles, I esteem my service,
14. if somehow I might provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
15. For if their casting away is the restoration to favour of the world, what is their acceptance but life from the dead?
16. Now if the first-fruit is set-apart, the lump is also. And if the root is set-apart, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, have been grafted in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18. do not boast against the branches. And if you boast, remember: you do not bear the root, but the root bears you!