Romans 11:13-29
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to
the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry in order to make my own people
jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection is the
reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from
the dead! If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then
the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also
are holy.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot,
were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, do
not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that it is not you
that support the root, but the root that supports you. You will say,
"Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." That is true.
They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through
faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. For if God did not
spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. Note then the
kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen,
but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness;
otherwise you also will be cut off. And even those of Israel, if they do
not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to
graft them in again. For if you have been cut from what is by nature a
wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive
tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their
own olive tree.
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters,
I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of
Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all
Israel will be saved; as it is written,
"Out of Zion will come the Deliverer;
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob."
"And this is my covenant with them,
when I take away their sins."
As regards the gospel they are enemies of God for your sake; but as
regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; for
the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
