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- I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry
- in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
- For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
- If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
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- For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
- If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
- 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?
- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- 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;
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- do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
- You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."
- Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
- For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
- Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
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- Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
- Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
- 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.
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- And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
- I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
- And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
- And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
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- And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
- 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?
- For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
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- As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
- for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.
- Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
- so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you.
- For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
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- As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
- For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
- For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
- Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
- For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
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- Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
- "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
- "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?"
- For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
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- O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
- Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
- For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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