Romans 11:13-24 - Gentile Branches Grafted In

¹³ I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office, ¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead! ¹⁶ If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.

¹⁷ Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem, ¹⁸ do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem. ¹⁹ You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!" ²⁰ Granted. They were broken off ??for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. ²² Consider both the kindness and the severity of God; those who fall come under his severity, but you come under the divine kindness, provided you adhere to that kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut away too. ²³ And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?