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11 I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.
12 But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!
13 But it is to you who are of the heathen that I am speaking. So far then as I am an apostle to the heathen, I make the most of my ministry,
14 in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.
15 For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?
16 If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,
18 you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.
19 "But," you will say, "branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in!"
20 That is true; but it was for their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you stand where you do. You ought not to feel proud; you ought to be afraid,
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you.
22 Observe then the goodness and the severity of God—severity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, provided you abide by his goodness, for otherwise, you in your turn will be pruned away.
23 Those others too, if they do not cling to their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut from a wild olive and unnaturally grafted upon a cultivated one, how much easier it will be to graft them upon the olive to which they properly belong!