Romans 11:13-24 (Epistle)
- 13
- For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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- if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
- 15
- For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
- 16
- For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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- And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
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- do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
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- You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”
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- Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
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- For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
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- Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
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- And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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- For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?