For if their rejection [by God] meant that [the rest of] the world could be restored to favor [with God], what would [God's] receiving the Jews back into fellowship be, except like dead people coming back to life?

And these Jews also will be grafted [back] in [to the olive tree] if they do not continue in their lack of faith [in Christ], because God is able to graft them back in again.

For this is the language of the promise, "About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

On the contrary, friend, who are you anyway that you would answer back to God? Can the clay that is molded ask the man who molds it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

for the gracious gifts and call of God are never taken back.

Or who has ever advanced God anything to have Him pay him back?

Stop taking revenge on one another, beloved, but leave a place for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

or "Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)."

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!