12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
fullness?
13. For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14. If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my
flesh, and might save some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the
root be holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the
root and fatness of the olive tree:
18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be
graffed in.
20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest
by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also
spare not thee.
22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree;
how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed
into their own olive tree?
25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness
in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be
come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob:
27. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
28. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31. Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy
they also may obtain mercy.
1 COR. XII, 13. For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.
HEB. XII, 18. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness,
and tempest,
19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them
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