8. According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
9. David says,“Let their table be made a snare, a trap,a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.Always keep their backs bent.”
11. I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12. Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13. For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an emissary to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
14. if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15. For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16. If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. 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, were grafted in amongst them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
18. don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
19. You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
20. True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
21. for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.