NSB(i)
16 If the first piece is holy, the lump is also holy. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
18 Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say, »The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.«
20 They were broken off because of unbelief! You stand by faith! Do not be conceited but be reverent.
21 God did not spare the natural branches and he will not spare you!
22 Observe both God’s kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off.
23 If they do not continue in unbelief they will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.
24 If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits (estimation). Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.
26 In this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: The deliverer will come out of Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
27 For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 Concerning the good news, they are enemies for your sakes. With reference to the chosen ones, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
29 The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.