I ask then – ‘Was their stumbling to result in their fall?’ Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.
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And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!
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But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.
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Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.
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For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?
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If the first handful of dough is holy, so is the whole mass, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.
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Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.
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But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.
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True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.
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For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God – his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.
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And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.
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If you were cut off from your natural stock – a wild olive – and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they – the natural branches – be grafted back into their parent tree.