Romans 11:17-25 ▼

17 And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;

18 boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.

19 You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

21 For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

22 Behold, then, God's kindness and severity; toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

23 And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.

24 For, if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25 For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;