Romans 11:13-24 - Gentile Branches Grafted In

¹³ For I speak to you Gentiles: inasmuch indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, ¹⁴ I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them: ¹⁵ for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches: ¹⁸ and if thou boastest, remember thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. ¹⁹ Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in? ²⁰ Well; they were broken off for their infidelity, and thou standest by faith: therefore be not high-minded but fear. ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, neither would He spare thee. ²² Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: towards them that fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness; if thou continue in his goodness: for else thou also shalt be cut off. ²³ And they, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able again to graft them in. ²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?