Romans 11:13-24 - Gentile Branches Grafted In
13 I speak to you people of the nations. For I am the apostle to the nations and I glorify (honor) (praise) (celebrate) my ministry. 14 If by any means I may provoke those who are of my flesh (fellow countrymen), and might save some of them. 15 If their rejection means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 16 If the first piece is holy, the lump is also holy. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them. 18 Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20 They were broken off because of unbelief! You stand by faith! Do not be conceited but be reverent. 21 God did not spare the natural branches and he will not spare you! 22 Observe both God's kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off. 23 If they do not continue in unbelief they will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. 24 If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?