Romans 11:8-26
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8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
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10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
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12 Now 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?
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13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
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15 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?
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16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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17 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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18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
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19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
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20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
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21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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22 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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23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
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24 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?
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25 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.
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26 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: