13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: |
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. |
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? |
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. |
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; |
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. |
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. |
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: |
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. |
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. |
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. |
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? |
