Romans 11:11-24

New English Translation

¹¹ I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall,^[a] did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel^[b] jealous. ¹² Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration^[c] bring?

¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴ if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ If the first portion^[d] of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.^[e]

¹⁷ Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in^[f] the richness of the olive root, ¹⁸ do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ Granted!^[g] They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear! ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. ²² Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God—harshness toward those who have fallen, but^[h] God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness;^[i] otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³ And even they—if they do not continue in their unbelief—will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?