Romans 11:13-24
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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. |
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For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? |
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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? |