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8 as the Scripture Says, "God has given them over to an attitude of insensibility, so that their eyes cannot see and their ears cannot hear, down to this very day."
9 And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution;
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."
11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.
12 But if their stumbling has resulted in the enrichment of the world, and their overthrow becomes the enrichment of heathen peoples, how much richer the result will be when the full quota of Jews comes in!
13 Yes, I now am speaking to you who are a part of the heathen peoples. As I am an apostle to the heathen peoples, I am making the most of my ministry to them, to see
14 if I can make my fellow-countrymen jealous, and so save some of them.
15 For if the rejection of them has resulted in the reconciling of the world, what will the result be of the final reception of them but life from the dead?
16 If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,
18 you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 Then you will say, "Branches have been broken off for us to be grafted in."
20 Very well, but it was for lack of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you now stand where you are. Stop your haughty thinking, rather continue to be reverent,
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, certainly He will not spare you.
22 So take a look at the goodness and the severity of God; severity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, on condition that you continue to live by His goodness; otherwise, you too will be pruned away.
23 And they too, if they do not continue to live by their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is amply able to graft them in.
24 For if you were cut off from an olive wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted on to a fine olive stock, how much easier will it be for the natural branches to be grafted on to their own olive stock?
25 For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,
26 and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;
27 And this my covenant I make with them, when I shall take away their sins."
28 As measured by the good news the Jews are God's enemies for your sakes, but as measured by God's choice they are His beloved because of their forefathers,
29 for the gracious gifts and call of God are never taken back.
30 For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,
31 so they too are now disobedient because of the mercy shown you, that they too may now have mercy shown them.
32 For God has locked up all mankind in the prison of disobedience so as to have mercy on them all.
33 How fathomless the depths of God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge! How unsearchable His decisions, and how mysterious His methods!
34 For who has ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, or has ever been His adviser?
35 Or who has ever advanced God anything to have Him pay him back?
36 For from Him everything comes, through Him everything lives, and for Him everything exists. Glory to Him forever! Amen.