Romans 11:12-20

12Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?1

13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

14If by any means I may provoke to jealousy them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

16For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy : and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;2

18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: