011:018 beware of glorying over the natural branches. Or if you are so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: the root upholds you. 011:019 "Branches have been lopped off," you will say, "for the sake of my being grafted in." 011:020 This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, and you only stand through your faith. 011:021 Do not be puffed up with pride. Tremble rather--for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. 011:022 Notice therefore God's kindness and God's severity. On those who have fallen His severity has descended, but upon you His kindness has come, provided that you do not cease to respond to that kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off also. 011:023 Moreover, if they turn from their unbelief, they too will be grafted in. For God is powerful enough to graft them in again; 011:024 and if you were cut from that which by nature is a wild olive and contrary to nature were grafted into the good olive tree, how much more certainly will these natural branches be grafted on their own olive tree? 011:025 For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of the Gentiles have come in; 011:026 and so all Israel will be saved. As is declared in Scripture, "From Mount Zion a Deliverer will come: He will remove all ungodliness from Jacob; 011:027 and this shall be My Covenant with them; when I have taken away their sins." 011:028 In relation to the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for your sakes; but in relation to God's choice they are dearly loved for the sake of their forefathers. 011:029 For God does not repent of His free gifts nor of His call; 011:030 but just as you were formerly disobedient to Him, but now have received mercy at a time when they are disobedient, 011:031 so now they also have been disobedient at a time when you are receiving mercy; so that to them too there may now be mercy. 011:032 For God has locked up all in the prison of unbelief, that upon all alike He may have mercy. 011:033 Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His decrees or trace His footsteps! 011:034 "Who has ever known the mind of the Lord, or shared His counsels?" 011:035 "Who has first given God anything, so as to receive payment in return?" 011:036 For the universe owes its origin to Him, was created by Him, and has its aim and purpose in Him. To Him be the glory throughout the Ages! Amen.