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So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass 1salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
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Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
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Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as 2I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
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in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and 3thus save some of them.
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For if their rejection means 4the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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5If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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But if 6some of the branches were broken off, and you, 7although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
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do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
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Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
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That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you 8stand fast through faith. So 9do not become proud, but 10fear.
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, 11provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise 12you too will be cut off.
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And 13even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
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For if you were 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, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.