For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.