Romans 11:12-20

12Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!

13Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

14if I might somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

15For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

16Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

18do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast — you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

19Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

20True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but beware,